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Eric Malthouse

The Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff, holds the UK's most extensive collection of oil paintings, watercolours, limited edition prints and drawings by Eric Malthouse (1914 - 97).

Malthouse was the Art Master at Salt High Schools at Saltaire, Shipley, Yorkshire (1938-39) before spending two years in the Royal Armoured Corps (1940-42). He was appointed Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at Cardiff College of Art (1944-73) and was a founder member of the "South Wales Group" (1949) and of the "56 Group Wales" (1956-70).
His important early work was Surrealist and his connection with Cornwall dates from the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 when he was producing landscapes around Mullion Cove. In 1952 he produced his pigeon paintings. It was not until 1955 when he was back in Cornwall that he began, after a series of 'St. Ives Fishermen', paintings, the St. Ives 'Rock Pools' which were the foundation of his work as a non-figurative painter. These 'Rock Pool' paintings, together with the earlier series of paintings of the 'Flight of Pigeons', were concerned with a close analysis of colour and a rigorous concern with spatial composition. In 1959 his paintings became completely non-figurative. He had been involved in printmaking since his student days and this became an increasingly important component of his work in Llandaff up to 1963 and subsequently in Penarth . In 1973 he moved to Cargreen in Cornwall where he continued his work with non-figurative oils and prints. In 1981 he moved to Keynsham. His wife Anne died in 1982 and in 1985 he moved back to Barry in South Wales. There he began a series of watercolours of scenes around Barry which he continued until he died in 1997.
Noteable work at the gallery include the Façade series (1969), screen prints made after his designs for John Dankworth's performance of Sir William Walton's music based on Edith Sitwell's poems of the same title, and the nine screen prints comprising Prynu Dol (1970) inspired by the writings of Kate Roberts.

Public Collections
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
University College, Aberystwyth
North Wales Arts Association
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Welsh Arts Council
University College, Cardiff
Trinity College, Carmarthen
Contemporary Art Society for Wales
University of Exeter
Glamorgan County Council
University of Glasgow
Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Merthyr Tydfil
British Hospitals, Nuffield Foundation
Port Talbot Town Council
Somerset County Council
Tate Gallery
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Lemons
Oil on board c1940
72 x 54cm
£3500

Apples & Jug
Oil on board c1940
50 x 63cm
£3500

Tangled Lines (1956)
Oil on paper
90 x 67 cm
£3995

Bagatelle Mutations, Four (1980)
Oil on canvas
90 x 90 cm
£2850

Afterthoughts - Green Wedge (1984)
Oil on canvas
76 x 76 cm
£2500

Quadrille Sequence, Two (1988)
Oil on canvas
90 x 90 cm
£2700

Men and fish
Signed Ltd edition print 1957
53 x 30 cm
£550

Variations on Construction Yellow (1971)
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm
£1050

St Ives, walking on the rocks
Mixed media
19 x 20 cm
£1250

Elegy for fun 2 (1975)
Oil on canvas
76 x 76 cm
£2200

Meadow Cranesbill (1937)
Wood engraving
Framed 2 of 7
22 x 15 cm
£395

First Bartholomew
Oil on canvas 1984
90 x 90 cm

Untitled
Oil on canvas 1962
42 x 32 cm
sold

Pigeons
Mixed media
45 x 35 cm
£950

Moving Off
Oil on canvas 1968
45 x 25 cm

Flight of Pigeons, Blue and Lilac
Oil on canvas 1956
62 x 90 cm
reserved

At the Breast
Oil on canvas 1939
42 x 42 cm

Down Around and About
Oil on canvas 1984
90 x 90 cm

Men and pigeons
Watercolour and ink on paper 1956
35 x 25 cm
sold

Vertical Bands and Cryptic Signs
Oil on canvas 1986
78 x 78 cms
£2500

Prinu dol, Four
Lithograph ltd edition 1970
16 x 28 cm
sold

Midsummer Solstice
Oil on canvas 1980
90 x 90 cm

Mrs Hannam
Oil on canvas 1939
55 x 62 cm

Black and Blue Drop-out
Oil on canvas 1981
78 x 78 cm

Midsummer
Lithograph Ltd edition 1967
70 x 50 cm

Eggs and teapot
Oil on canvas 1940
74 x 52 cm

Bagatelle Mutations, Two
Oil on canvas 1980
90 x 90 cm

Green, Khaki, At Odds
Oil on canvas 1980
78 x 78 cm

Step Off, With Pennants
Oil on canvas 1991
125 x 100 cm
sold

Step Off Again
Oil on canvas 1966
125 x 100 cm
£3200

Sorting Fish, St Ives
Watercolour 1956
21 x 21 cm
sold

Eric Malthouse
Portrait etching of the artist by Robert Ball 1937
17 x 25 cm

Vase of Daffodils
Oil on canvas
59 x 49 cm
sold

Study for Fling and Bow
Oil on canvas 1962
26 x 34 cm
£1250

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