Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/david-muirhead-1676" aria-label="More by David Muirhead" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">David Muirhead</a>
Cornfield
Presented by Julian Lousada through the Art Fund 1935
adults
agriculture and fishing
agriculture, gardening & fishing
East Anglia
England
England, East
field
figure
harvesting
haystack
landscape
objects
people
places
Suffolk
sunshine
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
wooded
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
24 June 2011 – 25 September 2011
2011-09-25
24 June 2011 – 25 September 2011
2011-09-25
2011-06-24
Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
2011-06-24
Art and Revolution in Liverpool 1911
Loan-out
The Cornfield
support: 614 × 920 × 20 mm
frame: 873 × 1170 × 120 mm
Presented by Julian Lousada through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1935
<p><b>N04781</b> THE CORNFIELD <i>c.</i> 1911</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘David Muirhead’, possibly with traces of a date, b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 24×36 (61×91·5).
<br/>Presented by Julian Lousada through the National Art-Collections Fund in memory of the artist 1935.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., summer 1911 (222); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1933 (516).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Gibson in <i>Studio</i>, LVII, 1912, p.103, repr.</p>
<p>Presented and previously catalogued as ‘Gainsborough's Lane’, the title of another <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> formerly in the possession of Julian Lousada (exhibited R.A., 1933 (501), as measuring 13 ×10 1/2 in.). <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/muirhead-the-cornfield-n04781" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04781</span></a> was first exhibited at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>. as ‘The Cornfield’, but appeared at the R.A. Winter Exhibition, 1933, as ‘The Cornfield, Ipswich’.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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adults agriculture and fishing agriculture, gardening & fishing East Anglia England England, East field figure harvesting haystack landscape objects people places Suffolk sunshine UK counties UK countries and regions weather wooded work and occupations