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Roland Pitchforth was born in Wakefield in 1895 and died in 1982. He lived in London and studied at Wakefield and Leeds Colleges of Art and the Royal College of Art.
Although he painted in oils he made watercolour his main medium. Working within the tradition of English romantic painting he evolved his own style, usually of ethereal scenery in which object and atmosphere dissolve into each other - Wet Road is typical of this style. An official war artist he taught at Camberwell, St Martin’s and Chelsea Polytechnic.
There are works in the Tate Gallery and galleries in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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