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Blaenau Ffestiniog

PRENDERGAST, Peter
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Image: © Estate of Peter Prendergast. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Blaenau Ffestiniog is a centre of the north Wales slate industry - the town is surrounded by a man-made landscape of quarried slate-tips. Prendergast’s painting was made at a time when the slate industry was already in decline, but the work’s expressive brushwork captures both the power of the landscape and its notoriously changeable weather.

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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 2533

Creation/Production

PRENDERGAST, Peter
1946-2007
Role: Artist
Period: 1993

Acquisition

Purchase, 22/7/1993

Measurements

Height (cm): 122.3
Width (cm): 305.2
Height (in): 48
Width (in): 120

Techniques

Canvas

Material

Oil

Location

In store
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Tags

  • Active In The 21St Century
  • Building
  • Fine Art
  • Landscape
  • Painting
  • Post 1900
  • Post 1945
  • Welsh Connection

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