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John Dean Monroe HarveyBarclays Bank 1964 architectural drawing. Design by JDM Harvey, London, England1964
1964
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John Dean Monroe Harvey (1895-1978)
A design for Barclays Bank, Walthamstow, London, England, UK (1964)
Gouache
41 x 60 cm
Signed and dated 1964.
A very fine architectural perspective by Harvey, featuring his customary distinctive clouds and elegant figures. The scheme of the bank was built, but the ground floor has since been rebuilt in a fashion less true to the building's original design.
Harvey is arguably unrivalled as an architectural perspectivist working into the latter half of the twentieth century. He trained as an architect but, after the war, worked almost solely on drawing architectural perspectives for other architects. Lawrence Wright wrote that The architectural draughtsman who is equally competent at drawing such incidentals [as landscape and figures] is as rare as the landscape or figure painter who is equally competent at architecture. Harvey was one of those rare men. He would draw a building with a slightly freer hand than an architect would, and his landscape in a slightly more architectural manner than that of a painter' (Wright, 'Perspective in Perspective', Routledge 1983, p234); Harvey's works illustrate his skill at combining architectural observation and design with incidental details. The figures and cars at ground level turn an architectural drawing of a bank into a lively set complete with its own original characters.
Harvey was born in Newfoundland, where his father was a railway engineer, and came to England aged 17, studying at St Paul’s School, London and at the School of Architecture, University College London 1914-1918. In 1920 he went into practice on his own, designing several interiors with J A Bowden. Amongst his works were the reconstruction and interior decoration of 4 Cleveland Place, London (1936-37), and a house – including all furnishings – in Herne Hill for Dr M I Elliot (1938). After 1944 he primarily worked as a perspective artist and illustrator, a role to which he was particularly well suited.
During the war he was a member of St Paul’s Watch, a group of over one hundred architects, surveyors, and artists who kept watch over St Paul’s Cathedral during the blitz, extinguishing fires and helping St Paul’s to survive the war virtually unscathed. The Watch was notably described as the ‘best dining club in London’ on account of its influential members.
Harvey retired to Italy, living on the shore of Lake Como and enjoying the local red wine.
- Creator:John Dean Monroe Harvey (1895 - 1978, Canadian)
- Creation Year:1964
- Dimensions:Height: 16.15 in (41 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)
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- Condition:Frame included for UK buyers (excluding Highlands, Islands and remote parts); postage costs would be prohibitive for overseas buyers.
- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU795310805582
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