Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/barnett-freedman-1116" aria-label="More by Barnett Freedman" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Barnett Freedman</a>
Music
Presented by J. Lyons and Co. 1953
baton
fine arts and music
instrument, clarinet
instrument, flute
instrument, horn
instrument, trumpet
objects
reading, writing, printed matter
sheet music, Bach, Johann Sebastian
painting oil paint canvas
Music
support: 762 × 1016 mm
Presented by J. Lyons and Co. 1953
<p><b>N06137</b> MUSIC 1951
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Barnett Freedman 1951’ b.r., and on the stretcher, ‘Barnett Freedman, 59 Cornwall Gardens London S.W.7. Music’.
<br/>Canvas, 30×40 (76×102).
<br/>Presented by J. Lyons &amp; Co. 1953.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Arts Council, October–November 1958, and tour (32).</p>
<p>The artist had been commissioned to make 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/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a> of this subject for J. Lyons &amp; Co., which was used to decorate their tea-shops. He wrote (14 February 1953) that this <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/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still life</span></a> ‘was painted after I produced the lithograph’. It follows the latter closely 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</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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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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baton fine arts and music instrument, clarinet instrument, flute instrument, horn instrument, trumpet objects reading, writing, printed matter sheet music, Bach, Johann Sebastian