Alastair Morton
Seed Beneath the Snow
About this artwork
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artist:Alastair Morton (1910 - 1963) Scottish
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title:Seed Beneath the Snow
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date created:1953
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materials:Gouache and ink on paper, laid on painted backboard
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measurements:Paper size: 28.50 x 29.00 cm (framed: 36.50 x 49.50 x 3.50 cm)
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object type:
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credit line:Presented by Jake Nicholson 2002
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accession number:GMA 4470
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gallery:
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
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Alastair Morton
Alastair Morton
Morton was an abstract painter as well as a designer and producer of fabrics. Born in Carlisle, after studying mathematics for a year at Edinburgh University and briefly attending Oxford University, he returned and joined the family’s textile firm ‘Edinburgh Weavers’ in 1932. Through his role as...
