'Man rolling a Barrel (A cooper at work)' lithograph
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In the 1930s and 1940s Brangwyn's somewhat bombastic style began to seem old fashioned. He paid little regard to contemporary developments and in his later years he lived as a virtual recluse in Ditchling, where he had settled in 1918.
During the 1930s Brangwyn gave away many of his pictures and prints. In 1935 Brighton Museum received no fewer than 147 etchings and 48 lithographs. The gift was in recognition of the kindness shown by the director, Henry Roberts, in allowing Brangwyn the use of the exhibition galleries in 1933 to paint the large murals he was preparing for the Radio Corporation of America Building (now the General Electric Building) in the Rockefeller Centre, New York. Brangwyn never went to the USA and never saw the murals in situ.