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Collection of drawings and paintings relating to industry and manufacture

Collection of drawings and paintings relating to industry and manufacture, 1940-1970, by Cliff Rowe (Clifford Hooper Rowe, 1904-1989). For details please see 1985-1355/1-/48.

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The Glass Blower

1970

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959

Glass Manufacture, Pilkington Plant

1965

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1961

The Glass Blower

1961

The Glass Blower

1961

The Glass Blower

1959

The Glass Blower

1970

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1956

The Glass Blower

1961

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1961

The Glass Blower

1959

Bicycle manufacture

1950-1959

Glass Manufacture, Pilkington Plant

1965

The Glass Blower

1959

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959

The Glass Blower

1959

The Glass blower

1959

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1961

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1952

The Glass Blower

1959

The Glass Blower

1970

The Glass Blower

1959-1970

The Glass Blower

1959

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959

Typesetting

1954

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1962

The Glass Blower

1959

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1962

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1951

The Glass Blower

1959

The Glass Blower

1962
Painting. [Glass Manufacture, Pilkington Plant] / Cliff Rowe, 1968. Postercolour and wash, heightened with white, on dark green; 44x33cm. Signed in green wash, trc: Rowe/68. Formalised study of woman operative preparing to clamp the moulding machine around the glass; the process has become an exercise in balances of form

Glass Manufacture, Pilkington Plant

1968
Painting. [Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London] / Cliff Rowe, [1961]. Oil on hardboard, 61 x 91.5 cm. Signed in oil, brc: Rowe. Shows front view, worked from 1985-1355/7, of shaping, with second figure to left looking on and holding rod; tripod and furnace on right

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1961
Painting. [Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London] / Cliff Rowe, [1959]. Oil on hardboard, 61 x 91 cm. Unsigned. Shows back view, worked from 1985-1355/9, pinching glass into shape; without tripod, rod rest before furnace; study of colour effects

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London

1959
Painting. [Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London] / Cliff Rowe, 1959. Oil on hardboard, 61 x 91 cm. Signed in oil, brc: Rowe/59. At the glass furnace; using the rod rest

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London

1959
Painting. [Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London] / Cliff Rowe, 1959. Oil on hardboard, monochrome greens; 45.5x91.5cm. Signed in black, brc: Rowe /59. Shows back view, worked from 1985-1355/9; to left, rod rests on tripod and into furnace

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959
Painting. [Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras] / Cliff Rowe, [1942]. Oil on canvas; 46 x 91 cm. Unsigned. Colour composition and study of movement and shape, one cleaning operative, worked from /43

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1942
Painting. The Glass Blower / Cliff Rowe, [1959]. Oil on hardboard; 122 x 61 cm. Unsigned. Geometrical composition, with full length curve to left of the blower, in apron [Whitefriars Foundry, London]

The Glass Blower

1959
Painting. [Cleaning Gas Retorts, St. Pancras] / Cliff Rowe, [1942]. Oil on hardboard; 82.5 x 122 cm. Signed in oil trc: Rowe. Full scale study of light and shadow, worked from 1985-1355/39

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1942
Painting. [Cleaning Gas Retorts, St. Pancras] / Cliff Rowe, 1942. Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white, on art board; 44 x 59 cm. In frame, 60.5x80x2cm. Signed in wash, brc:Rowe/42. Cleaners, clothing and apparatus at work on a second-layer retort furnace; the studies are worked into pattern and colour effect.

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1942
Painting. [The Assembly Line] / Cliff Rowe, [1950s]. Watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with black and white, on cream; 64 x 122 cm. Signed, trc: Rowe. Women operatives assembling machine parts, screw threads, at the factory bench. The composition conveys the boredom of repetitive and stark working conditions.

The Assembly Line

1950-1959
Drawing. [Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras] / Cliff Rowe, 1951. Charcoal on cream; 76x56cm. Signed in charcoal, brc: Rowe/51. Depicts two operatives, in protective clothing, handling pipes to clean a gas retort furnace, the top of a five-layer stack

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1951
Drawing. Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry, London / Cliff Rowe, [1959]. Charcoal on cream paper; 56x76cm. Unsigned. Study of glass fabrication, viewed from behind, showing positioning of rod and pinching to shape; study for 1985-1355/13 and /14

Glass Making, Whitefriars Foundry

1959
Drawing. [Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras] / Cliff Rowe, [1962]. Pen, black ink and blue wash, on cream; 54x76cm. In frame, 78.5x97.5x1cm. Signed in black, brc: Rowe. Shows two cleaning operatives at work on a gas furnace, the second layer of five, other retorts either side

Cleaning Gas Retorts, St Pancras

1962