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HAROLD SANDYS (“H.S.”) WILLIAMSON (1892-1978)
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LOADING MAILS AT THE DOCKS IN LONDON. 1934.
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x49
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inches, 103x126 cm.
Condition A- / B+: minor repaired tears at edges, some affecting image.
Williamson was a painter who was Headmaster at the Chelsea School of Art from 1930-1958. After
serving England during the First World War, he began designing posters for London Transport, the
Empire Marketing Board and the General Post Office, for whom he created a series of four images in
1934. All of his work bears a stylized, Art Deco sensibility, and this image, with its flat colors and
Machine Age rendering of the ships, bears a strong resemblance to Roger Broders’ image of Marseille
harbor.
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