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Mountain Fern
Presented by Arthur Kay, the artist's husband, through the Art Fund 1930
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The Mountain Fern
support: 510 × 285 mm
Presented by Arthur Kay, the artist's husband, through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1930
<p><b>N04513</b> THE MOUNTAIN FERN 1923
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<br/>Inscr. ‘K. Cameron. 1923’ b.c., ‘June 9th.’ b.r. and ‘The Mountain Fern June 1923
<br/>Katharine Cameron 4 Forres St. Edinburgh Drawn at Connel Argyll’ on back. Watercolour, 20×11 1/4 (51×28·5).
<br/>Presented by Arthur Kay through the National Art-Collections Fund 1930.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Walker's Galleries, April–May 1930 (49).</p>
<p>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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> was done in June 1923 at Connel Ferry, Argyll, on a hill-side where wild violets were also growing. The ferry is on the shores of Loch Etive, about five miles north of Oban. The artist afterwards made an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> from this drawing which was shown at the R.E. (Letter from the artist, 8 December 1959.) The etching differs slightly from the original drawing in that it is smaller (platemark, 16 7/8×7 1/2) and shows two bees, one perched on the frond on the left of 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> (reversed in the etching).</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</p>
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