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Llyn Treweryn
Purchased 1932
Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire
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Llyn Treweryn
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<p>At the Slade School of Art John had developed a style based on the Old Masters, but later broke away from this and started to paint brilliantly-coloured landscapes. In 1911-2 he made a sequence of landscape studies of the Welsh hills, using small wood panels and painting in the open air next to his friend and fellow artist James Dickson Innes, It was evidently a liberating experience, and the works he produced demonstrated his admiration of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
12 January 2002 – 15 September 2002
2002-09-15
22 June 2001 – 15 September 2002
2002-09-15
2001-06-22
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (Cardiff, UK)
2002-01-12
Art in Exile- Flanders, Wales and the First World War
Loan-out
12 April 2014 – 20 July 2014
2014-07-20
12 April 2014 – 20 July 2014
2014-07-20
2014-04-12
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (Cardiff, UK)
2014-04-12
Delectable Mountains - Rediscovering J.D. Innes (1887-1914)
Loan-out
Llyn Treweryn
support: 316 × 407 mm
Purchased 1932
<p>At the Slade School of Art John had  developed a style based on the Old Masters,  but later broke away from this and started  to paint brilliantly-coloured <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a>. In  1911-2 he made a sequence of landscape  studies of the Welsh hills, using small wood  <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/panel" title="Glossary definition for 'Panel'"><span>panels</span></a> and <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>painting</span></a> in the open air next to  his friend and fellow artist James Dickson Innes,  It was evidently a liberating experience, and  the works he produced demonstrated his admiration of French <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Impressionism'"><span>Impressionist</span></a> and  <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/post-impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'Post-Impressionism'"><span>Post-Impressionist</span></a> painting.</p>
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<p><b>N04653</b> LLYN TREWERYN 1912
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Oil on panel, 12 1/2×16 (31·5×40·5).
<br/>Purchased from Antonio Gandarillas (Clarke Fund) 1932.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Antonio Gandarillas from the artist 1914.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> John Fothergill, <i>James Dickson Innes</i>, 1946, pp.6, 12; John, 1952, pp.202–3.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Marriot, n.d., pl.6 (in colour); <i>Picture Post</i>, II, 18 March 1939, p.44 (in colour).</p>
<p>For many years this picture was known as ‘The Blue Pool’ and it was only when it was bought by the Tate Gallery that its correct title was confirmed by the artist to be ‘Llyn Treweryn’.</p>
<p>It is most likely that John first visited North Wales with John Sampson, the Romany scholar, during 1901–2 when the artist was living in Liverpool. It was between 1910 and 1913 that John returned to North Wales, this time with the artist J. D. Innes, who had a great influence on him. It was Innes who liberated John's colour which became clear and bright, and John was obviously also influenced by Innes's broad handling of paint.</p>
<p>Llyn Treweryn is a little lake in North Central Merioneth which, together with Arenig and Llyn Arenig Fawr, forms a triangle in which John painted most of his Welsh <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a>.</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
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire lake landscape Llyn Treweryn mountain places Snowdonia UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features Wales water: inland