Large original watercolour painting, depicting a view of West Chevin in Menston, West Yorkshire, by the Yorkshire artist Percy Monkman (1892-1986).

Percy Monkman was born in Bradford and lived at Baildon in West Yorkshire. He studied at the Bradford School of Art and painted predominantly town and country scenes around West Yorkshire using oils, watercolour and gouache.  He served in World War One afterwhich he returned to a career in banking, but continued to paint, and also act at the Bradford Civic Theatre.  He was the chief cashier with the Westminster Bank in Bradford, whereupon retiring he began to paint professionally.  He was a past president of the Bradford Art Club and a life member of the Yorkshire Watercolour Society and Farsley Arts Club, and was one of the first artists to regularly contribute work for the Dalesman magazine.

- Signed lower centre
- Original artist's label verso
- Framed, glazed, double-mounted and ready to hang, in a white moulded period frame
- Painting size 47cm x 33.5cm (approx. 18 1/2 inches x 13 1/4 inches)
- Frame size 66.5cm x 54cm (approx. 26 1/4 inches x 21 1/4 inches)
- The painting has some very light, feint foxing to the surface, otherwise it is in excellent condition
- The frame has some very minor dinks and nibbles to the corners, commensurate with age, otherwise it is in excellent condition 
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