Catalogue description Sketchbooks of Albert T Pile

This collection comprises three volumes of sketches collated by the artist, entitled "Whitby: The Crag: Series A-C" and numbered volumes 10-12, 1956-1961; volume of sketches collated by the artist, entitled "Haggersgate" and numbered volume 14, 1958-1962; volume of sketches collated by the artist, entitled "Enlarging the Fish Quay and Laying the New Sewer" and numbered volume 15, 1956-1957; volume of sketches collated by the artist of general Whitby scenes, numbered volume 45, 1955-1956; two volumes of sketches collated by the artist of Church Street, Whitby, numbered volume 49 and volume A, 1957 and 1963-1967; volume of sketches collated by the artist of Whitby and Whitby Naturalists' Club Outing, numbered volume 54, 1959; volume of sketches collated by the artist, entitled "Whitby Amateur Dramatic Society" and numbered volume 55, 1958-1961, these sketches are accompanied by programmes for some of the productions.

Pile, Albert Thomas, 1882-1981, artist

• Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire

This collection was bequeathed by A T Pile in 1982. Albert Thomas Pile, MSM, FRSA, SGA was born in London, and studied at the Central School, Goldsmith's, Camberwell and Bournemouth Colleges of Art. He first visited Whitby on sketching holidays in the early 1940s. A civil servant, during the Second World War he was an official artist to the Information Ministry. He lived in Whitby in retirement and was a member of the Fylingdales Group.

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