DOUGLAS FREDERICK PITTUCK OIL – MARKET CROSS, BARNARD CASTLE

Douglas Frederick Pittuck (1911-1993)

Oil on board

Signed and date 1979

76cm x 43cm

Price SOLD

Douglas Pittuck Was born in Plumstead London and educated at Wallington Grammar School where he was taught art by Tom Nash, a friend of Stanley Spencer. Whilst employed at New College Oxford,he was allowed time to attend art classes at the Ruskin School of Fine Art in the 1930’s. After the war he returned to the Ruskin full time with the aid of an ex-serviceman’s grant and studied under artist such as Eric Ravilious. He began a 25 year career as an art teacher  at Barnard Castle School in 1948. He remained an active artist and was one of the “Four Teesdale Painters” formed in 1951. His ex-pupils remember him talking of his influences who included Cezanne and an echo of that style can be seen in this work.