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Arenig Sunny Evening
Purchased 1942
Arenig
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<p>During his short life Innes stayed for several seasons in North Wales, close to the Arenig mountains, where he painted these small landscapes on wooden panels. Often they have peculiarly vivid colours, and he simplified the outline of the mountains to a single profile that he drew many times. North Wales was then remote and rarely visited by artists, and was imagined by Innes as a primitive land.Innes was a pioneer in Britain of these directly painted landscapes in strong colours, which he first used in Collioure in the South of France in 1908. He exhibited with the Camden Town Group in 1911, but like Augustus John was only a fringe member.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
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
13 September 2014 – 8 November 2014
2014-11-08
13 September 2014 – 8 November 2014
2014-11-08
2014-09-13
MOMA MACHYNLLETH (Machynlleth, UK)
2014-09-13
James Dickson Innes (1887 - 1914): Arenig
Loan-out
Arenig, Sunny Evening
support: 229 × 324 mm
frame: 382 × 480 × 90 mm
Purchased 1942
<p>During his short life Innes stayed for several seasons in North Wales, close to the Arenig mountains, where he painted these small <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> on wooden <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>. Often they have peculiarly vivid colours, and he simplified the outline of the mountains to a single profile that he drew many times. North Wales was then remote and rarely visited by artists, and was imagined by Innes as a <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/primitivism" title="Glossary definition for 'Primitivism'"><span>primitive</span></a> land.<br/>Innes was a pioneer in Britain of these directly painted landscapes in strong colours, which he first used in Collioure in the South of France in 1908. He exhibited with 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/camden-town-group" title="Glossary definition for 'Camden Town Group'"><span>Camden Town Group</span></a> in 1911, but like Augustus John was only a fringe member.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05367</b> ARENIG, SUNNY EVENING <i>c.</i>
1911–12
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<br/>Inscr. on the back ‘Arenig Sunny Evening’.
<br/>Oil on plywood, 9×12 3/4 (23×32);  1/4 in. of board on right not painted on.
<br/>Purchased from the Redfern Gallery (Benson Fund) 1942.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Sir Cyril Kendall Butler; Redfern Gallery.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
<i>Augustus John, J. D. Innes, Derwent Lees: Paintings 1910–14</i>, Redfern Gallery, February–March 1939 (52).</p>
<p>As Innes painted a number of pictures of Arenig it is not possible to trace 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/p/provenance" title="Glossary definition for 'Provenance'"><span>provenance</span></a> of this work with certainty, but it was probably No.82 in the Innes Memorial exhibition at the Tate Gallery, 1921–2, as ‘Arenig: Sunny Evening’, lent by Horace de Vere Cole. See also <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/innes-arenig-n03578" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03578</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/innes-arenig-north-wales-n04385" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04385</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
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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Arenig evening Gwynedd landscape mountain places times of the day UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Wales