Artist: Maud Frances Eyston Sumner
Date: 1971
Size: 63 x 48 cm
Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)
Technique: Watercolor
Midday Thames by South African artist, Maud Frances Eyston Sumner (1902-1985). Sumner painted this scene of the Battersea Power Station more than any other scene ever painted. Sumner frequently painted these scenes mostly between 1970 and 1973 and exhibited them at the Pieter Wenning Gallery in 1971 and 1973. The Battersea Power Station is a coal-fired power station in New Elms on the South Bank of the River Thames. The Power Station was shut down in 1975 and is a heritage listed building in the UK. Short Biography: Sumner was born in Johannesburg and spent her formative years in her hometown. After matriculating in South Africa she went to Oxford to study Literature in 1922 where she obtained her master
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