Description (Labels & Markings)
Label on rear notes 'Jenny- a present for an African church?'
Event Date 2/3/2022
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
'African crucifiction' by Margaret Trowell. Initialled 'K.M.T. 19558-74', right bottom in white. Pen, charcoal and water colour on paper. Framed and glazed.
Event Date 2/3/2022
Author: rachel hand

Context (Other owners)
From the collection of John Thorold Masefield C.M.G., (b. 1939 Uganda). He studied Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, graduated with a double first in 1962 (St Johns College), and then had a career in what is now the F.C.O., serving as High Commissioner in Tanzania (1989-92) and to Nigeria (1994-97), during which period he worked with the Oba of Benin to commemorate the centenary of the 1897 raid. He was subsequently Governor of Bermuda (1997-2001).

On his marriage to Jennifer Mary Sifton MBE (née Trowell) (d.29th April 2019, aged 79), Kathleen Margaret Sifton (1904-85) best known as Margaret Trowell, became his mother-in-law. She received art training at the Slade (1924-26), moved with her husband Hubert Carey Trowell, to Uganda in 1929, and established formal art education at Makarere College in 1937, which served East Africa, drawing students from Tanzania and Kenya as well as Uganda. Trowell played a major role as a mentor of 'modern' African art in this context.
Event Date 2/3/2022
Author: rachel hand

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwriting on a label on the original rear of the frame reads 'AFRICAN CRUCIFIXION / Margaret Trowell. / Not for Sale.'
Event Date 27/3/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Description (Inscription)
Pencil handwriting on the bottom right corner reads 'sky deep blue / red earth path from '?' to / cross, ? dark brown ? / white rope all the green on ? / they sat / Inner 14 1/2 19 | Outer 19 1/2 x 24 1/2'.
Event Date 27/3/2024
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu