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Ronald Rutherford Centre Cliff, Southwold 1979 |
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About the artist
(This text appearson the back of the greeting card)
RONALD RUTHERFORD (b. 1913)
RONALD RUTHERFORD was born in Banstead in 1913. He went to Estonia at the age of eighteen, and, as well as studying German, spent one day a week in the studio of a Russian artist. It was here that he learnt the rudiments of painting. After returning home he studied at the Architectural Association in London and practised as an architect in England and then in Rhodesia. He came back to England in 1958, and he retired from architecture in 1973 in order to concentrate on painting. For the next fifteen years he lived in Southwold in Suffolk. His study of Centre Cliff from the sea shows the cool elegance of the main terrace, which was built in 1829, and was where the poet Swinburne stayed in 1875. It also shows the Lord Nelson pub nestling behind the sailors' reading room. The latter was built in 1864 at a cost of £546 4 shillings by the widow of a naval captain in an attempt to wean local fishermen from the former – or at least from their alleged failings: going to sea on the Sabbath and getting drunk on this or any other day. |
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