Alfred Daniels b.1926
The Card Players, 1950
oil on canvas
36.25 x 20.5 ins
signed and dated

Provenance
The Artist
Private Collection, UK

Exhibited
London, R.B.A. Galleries, Young Contemporaries, 1951, Winner of the Knapping Prize

Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, The Forgotten Fifties, 31 March - 13 May 1984, cat no. 20 b, touring to:
Norwich, Castle Museum, 26 May - 24 June
Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, 7 July - 5 August
London, CAmden Arts Centre, 15 August - 23 September

Alfred Daniels was born in London's East End in 1924. In the late 1940s he studied at the Royal College of Art, London. As a young graduate, he toured Florence, Venice, Ravenna and Siena, where he was deeply impressed by the Italian Primitives. His award-winning murals (1952-4) at Hammersmith Town Hall, depicting life on the Thames, are regarded as modern classics. An example of his early painting Sunday on the Grass, 1951, which is comparable to the paintings of American artist, Ben Shahn, was included in Transition; the London Art Scene in the Fifties a survey of 1950s British painting held at the Barbican Art Gallery in 2002.