Painting of Portishead 'B' Power Station
- Description
- Commissioned by the Central Electricity Generating Board, this is one of a number of architectural views by Tristram Hillier. Although the power station was operational in 1956, when Hillier painted it, he shows it during construction, revealing an interesting industrial structure. He lived near Glastonbury from 1947.
- Accession Loan No.
- WESTM : 1994.302
- Collection Class
- Fine Art
- Medium
- oil
- Common Name
- painting of Portishead 'B' Power Station
- Simple Name
- painting
- Production Person Surname
- Hillier (1905-1983)
- Production Person Initials
- Tristram
- Period Classification
- Modern (AD 1800-Present)
- Production Date
- 1956
- Production Town
- Glastonbury
- Production County
- Somerset
- Production Country
- England
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Material
- canvas, hessian, wood
- Topography Town
- Portishead, Somerset
- Topography Building Keyword
- Portishead 'B' Power Station
