British Industries, Steel

Painting, oil on board, British Industries, Steel, by Richard Jack, 1924. Depicts a steelworks set against a lurid orange evening sky, with the outlines of buildings and chimneys. In the foreground are railway tracks, with wagons and a locomotive moving at left. Signed and dated by the artist at bottom right. Framed, unglazed. Original artwork for London Midland & Scottish Railway poster. Produced as part of a series of sixteen posters commissioned from Royal Academy artists and published in 1924.