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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-farquharson-178" aria-label="More by Joseph Farquharson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Farquharson</a>
Joyless Winter Day
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1906
Aberdeenshire
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
blizzard
dog, sheepdog
field
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess
landscape
places
Scotland
seasons
sheep
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
winter
work and occupations
<p>Despite blizzard conditions, this picture was actually painted in the open air, albeit from the relative comfort of the artist's specially contructed mobile painting hut, which contained a stove. This enabled Farquharson to capture the remarkably realistic effects of a snow storm. The sheep, however, were false, fabricated in plaster by a local sculptor. Farquharson was famed for his Scottish snow scenes, and excepting 1914, sent a new one to the Royal Academy every year between 1894 and 1925. This was the first in the series. Farquharson combined a career as an artist with his inheritied responsibility as laird of the Finzean estate in Aberdeenshire, where many of his landscapes were painted.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
2009-01-11
2008-10-04
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2008-10-04
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Exhibition
The Joyless Winter Day
support: 1041 × 1803 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> 1906
<p>Despite blizzard conditions, this picture was  actually painted in the open air, albeit from the  relative comfort of the artist's specially  contructed mobile painting hut, which contained  a stove. This enabled Farquharson to capture the  remarkably realistic effects of a snow storm. The  sheep, however, were false, fabricated in <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/plaster-of-paris" title="Glossary definition for 'Plaster of Paris'"><span>plaster</span></a>  by a local <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a>. Farquharson was famed for his  Scottish snow scenes, and excepting 1914, sent a  new one to the Royal Academy every year between  1894 and 1925. This was the first in the series.  Farquharson combined a career as an artist with  his inheritied responsibility as laird of the  Finzean estate in Aberdeenshire, where many of his  <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> were painted.</p>
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Aberdeenshire agriculture and fishing animals: mammals blizzard dog, sheepdog field herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, shepherd / shepherdess landscape places Scotland seasons sheep UK counties UK countries and regions weather winter work and occupations