Minton was an English painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher. He studied in France and began his career teaching in London, but he painted prolifically during this time. In addition to landscapes and portraits, he also built up a reputation as a book illustrator.
In the mid 1950’s, Minton found himself out of sync with the move to abstraction, and felt increasingly sidelined. He suffered psychological problems, self medicated with alcohol and in 1957 he committed suicide.
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Ink, watercolour and Gouache on paper
10 ½ x 15 in (26.7 x 38.1 cm)
Signed
Collection: The Medici Society
Literature: Martin Salisbury The Snail that climbed The Eiffel Tower 2017 (p 200-201)
This is part of a commission from Everett’s Advertising company to record the Imperial Smeltings Corporation’s plant at Widnes. Minton’s impressive watercolour shows the Rotary Calcinator’s during the production of Lithopone a pigment used in paint. The image appeared in the subsequent advertising entitled Ordeal by fire.