Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-charles-john-holmes-1304" aria-label="More by Sir Charles John Holmes" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Charles John Holmes</a>
Burning Kiln
Presented by Michael Sadler through the Art Fund 1915
architecture
England
England, South East
England, Southern
industrial
kiln
natural phenomena
places
pool
Purley
smoke
Surrey
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
water: inland
painting oil paint canvas
The Burning Kiln
support: 686 × 762 mm
Presented by Michael Sadler through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1915
<p><b>N03041</b> THE BURNING KILN 1914
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<br/>Inscr. ‘C J H 1914’ b.r.; a 5 appears to have been incised over the 4.
<br/>Canvas, 27×30 (69×76).
<br/>Presented by Sir Michael Sadler through the National Art-Collections Fund 1915.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Michael Sadler at the N.E.A.C. 1914.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., summer 1914 (161).
<br/><i>Lit:</i>
Baker, 1924, p.24; J. B. Manson, <i>The Tate Gallery</i>, 1929, p.144; Holmes, 1936, pp.302–3.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Tate Gallery Illustrations</i>, 1928, pl.114; James Laver, <i>Portraits in Oil and Vinegar</i>, 1925, facing p.43.</p>
<p>Baker (<i>loc. cit.</i>) wrote: ‘The Burning Kiln (1914) in the Tate Gallery was determined after many trials, some with a light sky, some with a longer picture, others with different emphasis and spacing.’ The artist (<i>loc. cit.</i>) says it was ‘developed, not without effort, from a sketch near Purley’. His son Martin Holmes told the compiler in December 1957 that it was probably done from the Coulsdon side as he used to visit an uncle who lived there. 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> was probably not taken direct from nature.</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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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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architecture England England, South East England, Southern industrial kiln natural phenomena places pool Purley smoke Surrey UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions water: inland