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The Secret (Addington Square).
The Secret (Addington Square).
The Secret (Addington Square).

The Secret (Addington Square).

Date1954
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsObject/Work: 1346.2 x 1041.4 mm
ClassificationsArtworks/Commemorations/Photographs
Terms
    Object numberGA0989
    DescriptionJohn M. Paramor was a local artist who lived in Swinborne Court, Denmark Hill. He was a member of a local exhibiting society, the South East London Art Group. This painting, titled The Secret, was purchased from the group's Open Exhibition held at the South London Gallery (SLG) in 1956. A contemporary newspaper article referred to Paramor's "great canvas of back street life", a subject and quality that is evident in all of Paramor's urban, everyday scenes.

    Addington Square was built during the Georgian period. The playground within the square was created in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty King George V.

    On View
    Not on view
    Collections
    Old Cottages, Addington Square
    R. B. Urquhart
    c.1951
    Borough Market
    Dorothy Mills
    Sceaux Gardens Estate
    Keith Coventry
    1995
    The Fox under the Hill, Denmark Hill
    William Keddie Forrester
    1925
    Camberwell Palace
    William Keddie Forrester
    1957
    Camberwell Grove
    Norman Janes
    1952
    Olla
    45-400
    Southwark Sappho
    1993 - 1994
    Figurine
    600-30 BC
    Figurine
    600-30 BC
    Club
    1800-1840