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Capel a Thomen

SHORT, Denys

© Denys Short/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Children are playing a ball game in a steep valley street, leading up to a Welsh chapel. Painted in about 1960, this work has an incredible poignancy in light of the 1966 Aberfan disaster, when a collapsed coal tip killed 116 children. Here, children play at the foot of the Chapel in the shadow of a looming tip – a precarious symbol of both community prosperity and unimaginable devastation.What street games do you remember playing as a child? How are things different today?


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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 25830

Creation/Production

SHORT, Denys
Date:

Acquisition

Gift, 1996
Rhodd Casgliad Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru, 2002 Arts Council of Wales Collection, Gifted 2002

Measurements

(): h(cm) frame:194.0
(): h(cm)
(): w(cm) frame:136.2
(): w(cm)

Techniques

oil on board
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting

Material

oil
board

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Architecture And Buildings
  • Art And Design Movements
  • Chapel
  • Child
  • Fine Art
  • Industry And Work
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Features
  • Painting
  • People
  • Post 1945
  • Short, Denys
  • Welsh Connection

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