Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lucy-kemp-welch-1397" aria-label="More by Lucy Kemp-Welch" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Lucy Kemp-Welch</a>
Forward Guns
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1917
adults
animals: actions
animals: mammals
army
battle
cart
England
England, South West
England, Southern
groups
heathland
hill
history
horse
landscape
man
military
military: World War I
objects
people
places
riding
running
Salisbury Plain
society
storm
transport: land
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
weapon, firing / explosion
weapons
weather
Western Front
Wiltshire
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
25 November 2014 – 1 March 2015
2015-03-01
25 November 2014 – 1 March 2015
2015-03-01
2014-11-25
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2014-11-25
Horse in War
Loan-out
1 March 2023 – 25 February 2024
2024-02-25
21 October 2023 – 25 February 2024
2024-02-25
2023-10-21
National Horseracing Museum (Newmarket, UK)
http://www.nhrm.co.uk/
2023-03-01
In her own voice: the art of Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958)
Loan-out
Forward the Guns!
support: 1524 × 3061 mm
frame: 1750 × 3270 × 128 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> 1917
<p><b>N03217</b> FORWARD THE GUNS 1917
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘L. Kemp-Welch 1917’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 60×120 1/2 (152·5×306).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1917.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1917 (706).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1917, p.133.</p>
<p>The picture was painted from studies made at manœuvres in England. According to <i>The Times</i> Obituary, 28 November 1958: ‘For this picture she sat with her easel on Salisbury Plain while eight batteries of horse artillery were driven towards her so that she could sketch the general outline of their movement.’</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, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults animals: actions animals: mammals army battle cart England England, Southern England, South West groups heathland hill history horse landscape man military military: World War I objects people places riding running Salisbury Plain society storm transport: land UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features weapon, firing / explosion weapons weather Western Front Wiltshire work and occupations