Large original watercolour painting, depicting a farmer and his Border Collie herding sheep between fields, while another farmer and his dog looks on.  This beautiful painting is entitled 'Good Companions', and is by listed Yorkshire artist Donald Crossley (1932-2014).

 

Donald Crossley lived in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, where he grew up alongside his good friend, poet laureate Ted Hughes. He attended the Hebden Bridge Grammar School, and studied art at evening classes in Todmorden. The photographer Alice Longstaff brought him to wider attention by displaying his work in her shop, and he went on to sell his paintings to admirers and collectors at home and abroad. His works of Yorkshire Dales, Lake District and Pennine landscapes are easily recognisable and often exhibited and some have been published by the National Trust. He served on the committee of the Yorkshire Watercolour Society, was a member of the British Watercolour Society and a Fellow of the International Guild of Artists.

 

- Signed lower right

- Original artist's label verso

- Original exhibition label verso

- Titled on the mount

- F​ramed, glazed and ready to hang in a mottled-silver coloured moulded period frame

- Painting size 50cm x 33cm (Approx. 19 5/8 inches x 13 inches)

- Frame size 72cm x 33.5cm (Approx. 28 3/8 inches x 13 1/4 inches)

- The painting is in excellent condition

- The frame has some minor rubbing and a few minor Chipss commensurate with age, please see images above, otherwise it is in excellent condition

- Excellent investment

- Superb centrepiece

- Original gift

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