Gardiner Houlgate
Lot 1158
Claude Henry Buckle RI, RSMA (1905-1973) - the Bell Foundry with men working on large bells, light streaming in from a window nearby, signed, watercolour, 19.5" x 24.5" **He worked for J.S. Fry & Sons, chocolate manufacturers in Bristol as an assistant architect. During this time with Fry's, he was involved in the building of a new factory at Keynsham, Somerdale and was supported by Fry's to study architecture at Bristol University. In 1926, at the age of twenty-one, Buckle moved to London and joined Wallis, Gilbert and Partners and became responsible for building the Ford factories at Dagenham. He became one of the youngest amateur members of the British Savages Art Group based in Bristol. He travelled to France, Spain and North Africa and later became responsible for designing railway posters, he was a close friend of Terence Cuneo, both artists have surviving artwork in The National Railway Museum in York. From 1958 onwards, he became a member at The Royal Institute of Painters and Watercolours and a member of the Federation of British Artists as well as a member of the Marine Society and exhibited works at the London Boat Show Full-scale lithographic reproductions were distributed to high street retailers including Fenwick in London, he also held exhibitions of his work in Marlborough, Wiltshire, and London in his studio at Vernham Dean, it is said that the artist produced an estimated three hundred watercolour paintings. In appreciation of Claude Buckle's career, Terence Cuneo, paid tribute to Buckle's style of painting. His work can be seen at National Railway Museum, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Museums Trust *The work is contained within a gold leaf plaster and wooden frame
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