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Description: | Recurrent themes in Bayliss' paintings of the Black Country are figures struggling across a ravaged landscape with the grey bulk of blast furnaces and chimneys in the background and smoke filled skies. He was not interested in 'prettyfying' the landscape. He wanted to to present it in all its rawness. He usually worked by making drawings and sketches on the spot, which he finished back in his studio. As an artist his work relates to the 'social realist' movement of the nineteenth century and also to the 'plein-air' (literally 'out of doors') artists of the Newlyn School in Cornwall and the Barbizon School in France. Butler Bayliss was an entirely self-taught artists. His father was an iron-foundry owner and the family lived at 'The Woodhouse' in Wood Road, Tettenhall. Initially he went into the family firm but in his late twenties he returned to concentrate on his painting. In 1907 he and his wife moved to 'the Beeches' in nearby Regis Road and this house became a social base for many other local artists.
Oil painting showing a black and grey industrial landscape. Blast furnaces and chimneys are visible in the background. The smokey sky is black and grey. A figure struggles across the landscape. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Estate of Edwin Butler Bayliss | Subjects: | Black Country Fine arts Landscape Oil painting Oil Paintings Iron industry Industrial areas Metal industry Art collections Industry | Temporal: | 1900 - 1936
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | BAYLISS; Edwin Butler (1874 - 1950); RBSA | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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