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Surrey Canal Camberwell
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
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Camberwell, Surrey Canal
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emotions and human qualities
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UK countries and regions
UK London
universal concepts
water: inland
weather
<p>Newton began to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy summer shows in 1923 and he continued to send paintings for several decades. His chosen subjects were views of London, mostly in the St John's Wood, Hampstead, Kentish Town and Paddington areas. He was particularly fond of including a stretch of water in his compositions and often chose back-street views of canals, as here. He liked the slightly forlorn Regency and early Victorian terraces that faced the canals, and gave them a curiously uninhabited look. He once wrote: 'There is beauty to be found in everything, you only have to search for it; a gasometer can make as beautiful a picture as a palace on the Grand Canal, Venice. It simply depends on the artist's vision.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
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Loan-out
The Surrey Canal, Camberwell
support: 718 × 914 mm
frame: 860 × 1062 × 85 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1940
<p>Newton began to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy summer shows in 1923 and he continued to send <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> for several decades. His chosen subjects were views of London, mostly in the  St John's Wood, Hampstead, Kentish Town and Paddington areas. He was particularly fond of including a stretch of water in his compositions and often chose back-street views of canals, as here. He liked the slightly forlorn Regency and early Victorian terraces that faced the canals, and gave them a curiously uninhabited look. He once wrote: 'There is beauty to be found in everything, you only have to search for it; a gasometer can make as beautiful a picture as a palace on the Grand Canal, Venice. It simply depends on the artist's vision.'</p>
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<p><b>N05343</b> THE SURREY CANAL, CAMBERWELL 1935</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘acn [in monogram]. 35’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 28 1/4×36 (71·5×91·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1935 (118); <i>International Exhibition</i>, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1936 (103); <i>United Artists</i>, R.A., January–March 1940 (896).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Hesketh Hubbard, <i>A Hundred Years of British Painting 1851–1951</i>, 1951, pl.95.</p>
<p>A typical example of the artist's many London views.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-07-21T00:00:00
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architecture bank Camberwell, Surrey Canal canal chimney cloud emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas England features house industrial mystery natural phenomena nostalgia places reflection residential silence streetlight sunset telegraph pole times of the day townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London universal concepts water: inland weather