
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Harry Rutherford 1903-1985 The artist Harry Rutherford lived here, keeping a studio next door. Rutherford liked to paint popular entertainments - music halls, theatres, pubs, the circus and the cinema and sketched for his own television programmes in the 1930s and 1950s. Recorded plaque organisation: Tameside Metropolitan Borough.
Harry Rutherford was a British artist renowned for capturing the essence of popular entertainments such as music halls, theatres, pubs, circuses, and cinemas in his paintings. He also contributed to cultural media by sketching for television programmes during the 1930s and 1950s, leaving a significant mark on both visual arts and early television entertainment.
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Photo: Gerald England on Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0