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Rooftops, backyards, urban scapes

Behind the scenes

As a supplement to the article in today's Press GO section, highlighting the recent purchase of Ivy Fife's Untitled (Towards Worcester Street from St. Elmo Courts), here's a modest selection of paintings of rooftops, backyards and urban scapes from the collection...

Ivy Fife, Untitled (Towards Worcester Street from St. Elmo Courts), c.1956

Ivy Fife, Untitled (Towards Worcester Street from St. Elmo Courts), c.1956

...all by artists with a strong local connection; showing that it wasn't just dry ochre hills, tussock and blue skies that has given impetus and inspiration to Canterbury painters. Viewable here at MY GALLERY