Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1940
Harrow Coliseum
This is a scene from a play entitled 'A Frightened Lady' at the Coliseum in Harrow. The actors and set are seen from the wings of the stage, and some of the gallery, including the raised curtain and footlights are visible on the right.
Grace Golden was particularly interested in the theatre. As well as depicting theatre interiors and audiences in her sketches, she was also active in theatrical circles. Golden was a member of the Hesketh Hubbard Art Society (the society of theatre research) and also worked as an honorary archivist for the Shakespeare Globe Theatre Project.
The Coliseum in Harrow opened in 1940, the same year as Golden's drawing, and replaced a cinema which had opened on the same site in 1922. The Coliseum closed in 1955.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 79.427/41
- Object name:
- Harrow Coliseum
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- Artist/Maker:
- Golden, Grace
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- Production date:
- 1940
- Material:
paper, watercolour, pencil
- Measurements/duration:
- H 166 mm, W 127 mm (paper)
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
Mabberley, Colin
- Image credit:
© Estate of Grace Golden
- Creative commons usage:
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- License this image:
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