LONDON.- Two key pieces by 20th-century British artist John Piper have been bought for Eastbourne’s contemporary art museum, Towner, with help from the Art Fund. Newhaven, The Castle (1934) and Newhaven (1937), which featured in Towner’s hit exhibition John Piper in Kent & Sussex earlier this year, were purchased following an Art Fund grant and a public appeal. Newhaven, The Castle (1934) and Newhaven (1937) show Piper depicting the same subject, three years apart. Despite their shared subject the two paintings have a very different feel, a sign of Piper’s fast-paced development during a period in which he was at the cutting edge of British art. The Newhaven paintings were created at a time when Piper was working closely with Eric Ravilious, an English painter whose works feature prominently in Towner’s permanent collection. Councillor Neil Stanley said, ‘We were absolutely delighted by the positive response to our appeal, w