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We've put together a short thread that shows some pictures of how Colin captured the reality for working men and women in during his lifetime.
"Hunger Marches" by #ColinMoss. Oil on canvas (1936).
#workingclassbritain #oilpainting
"Gaumont Cinema" Colin Moss 1948 "His [Daumier's] beer drinkers, smokers and theatre audiences influenced me". "Gaumont Cinema" is one of four paintings by Colin to feature in the #MakingOfIpswich exhibition @IpswichMuseums #Ipswich #memories #localhistory
Ipswich was once called 'a northern industrial town in the comfortable south' John Norman @EADT24 "Man in a Passageway" 1951 (ink and gouache)
Colin Moss–Sweeping Man 1958
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His art does not fit in comfortably with our notions of the East Anglian School, with its idealised rural Suffolk pastorals by John Constable or its cosy village greens captured by Leonard Squirrel.Colin Moss:Life Observed, Bennett(Malthouse press)