3 February
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23 April 2006
Section
1: Defining DocumentaryClive Branson 1907-1944
Portrait of a Worker circa
1930
© Estate of the Artist
This portrait of an unidentified man, painted with a close attention to detail, is characteristic of Branson's aim to represent the working class. Branson eschews the usual sentimental or unsympathetic representation of such a subject and seeks to show him as a man like any other, equally worthy of consideration. Branson was an active Communist during the 1930s; he was a recruiter for the International Brigade and himself fought in the Spanish Civil War, being captured in April 1938.
