Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/elinor-bellingham-smith-735" aria-label="More by Elinor Bellingham-Smith" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Elinor Bellingham-Smith</a>
DragonFlies
Purchased 1948
actions: processes and functions
animals: insects & lower animals
Berkshire
boy
child
children
clothing and personal items
dragonfly
England
England, South East
England, Southern
foliage
hat
hat, cap
Hurley - non-specific
lake
landscape
looking / watching
objects
people
places
plants and flowers
pool
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
water: inland
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
Dragon-Flies
support: 610 × 914 mm
Purchased 1948
<p><b>N05873</b> DRAGON-FLIES 1948
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<br/>Inscr. ‘E B S’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 24×36 (61×91·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through the Leicester Galleries (Knapping Fund) 1948.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, October 1948 (27).</p>
<p>Completed in 1948, though possibly begun in 1947. The idea came when the artist was staying at Hurley near Henley-on-Thames, the scene of a number of her <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>; one day there was a swarm of dark blue dragon-flies which inspired a number of <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>drawings</span></a>. The oil was painted partly in the artist's London studio, partly at Hurley (letters from the artist, 10 and 16 August 1960).</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: processes and functions animals: insects & lower animals Berkshire boy child children clothing and personal items dragonfly England England, South East England, Southern foliage hat hat, cap Hurley - non-specific lake landscape looking / watching objects people places plants and flowers pool tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions water: inland wooded