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Russian Soldiers
Purchased 1942
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: mammals
army
blanket
cloak
clothing and personal items
cloud
diseases and conditions
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
furnishings
groups
hill
history
horse
landscape
man
medical
military
military
nationality
objects
people
rain
Russian
Russian Civil War 1918-21
sitting
sledge
society
soldier
stretcher
suffering
transport: land
walking
weather
work and occupations
wounded
paper unique gouache
Russian Soldiers
support: 318 × 527 mm
Purchased 1942
<p><b>N05370</b> RUSSIAN SOLDIERS 1941</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘C. Murray’ b.r.
<br/>Gouache, 12 1/2×20 3/4 (31·5×53).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1942.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leeds, May–June 1955 (13).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Ernest I. Musgrave, ‘Charles Murray 1894–1954’ in <i>Studio</i>, CXLIX, 1955, p.181, repr. p.182.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> V. &amp; A., <i>Twentieth Century British Water-Colours</i>, 1958, pl.40.</p>
<p>Painted in 1941 (letter from the artist's widow, 22 January 1958), a reminiscence of the artist's service with the White Army in Russia 1918–20. Other Russian scenes date from the 1930s.</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, II
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actions: postures and motions adults animals: mammals army blanket cloak clothing and personal items cloud diseases and conditions emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas furnishings groups hill history horse landscape man medical military military nationality objects people rain Russian Russian Civil War 1918-21 sitting sledge society soldier stretcher suffering transport: land walking weather work and occupations wounded