WAYNEY GOING TO HEAVEN

© Courtesy of the Artist/ The Bridgeman Art Library

WAYNEY GOING TO HEAVEN 1989

Craigie Aitchison (1926 – 2009)

Details

Dimension
63 x 47 CM
Media
SCREENPRINT
Accession number
P5744

Summary

This print was published by the National Art Collections Fund to raise funds to give grants to museums and galleries to purchase works of art that might otherwise leave the UK. Aitchison has always loved dogs; his favoured breed being the Bedlington terrier, and in 1971 he purchased Wayney, who became his favourite. When Wayney died the artist painted a memorial showing the terrier ascending into the sky, paws first. The print was made in two colour versions: grey and vivid pink, a very Aitchison colour.