Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-stott-532" aria-label="More by Edward Stott" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Stott</a>
Changing Pastures
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1922
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
astronomy
children
cow
England
England, South East
England, Southern
fence
field
gate
girl
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, cowherd
landscape
people
places
sun
Sussex - non-specific
townscapes / man-made features
UK counties
UK countries and regions
work and occupations
<p>French rural naturalism inspired artists across Europe during the 1880s. It embraced both a technique and a range of subjects, and encouraged a sober and humble appreciation of the people who worked on the land. Some artists were most concerned with details of costumes and agriculture, while others, like Edward Stott, sought to go on from the subject to imply abstract notions of seasons and ages. The design of this painting is based on a network of right angles, and suggests in turn that there is nothing casual about the work of the cowherd.Stott lived at Amberley in Sussex, and the view may be based on that area, although he did not work directly from nature.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 May 2017 – 4 February 2018
2018-02-04
1 May 2017 – 28 January 2018
2018-01-28
2017-05-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2017-05-01
William Stott of Oldham
Collection based display
27 May 2023 – 14 October 2023
2023-10-14
27 May 2023 – 14 October 2023
2023-10-14
2023-05-27
Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/
2023-05-27
Essence of Nature: Pre-Raphaelites to British Impressionists
Loan-out
Changing Pastures
support: 705 × 876 mm
frame: 1040 × 1205 × 110 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1922
<p>French <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/rural-naturalism" title="Glossary definition for 'Rural Naturalism'"><span>rural naturalism</span></a> inspired artists across Europe during the 1880s. It embraced both a technique and a range of subjects, and encouraged a sober and humble appreciation of the people who worked on the land. Some artists were most concerned with details of costumes and agriculture, while others, like Edward Stott, sought to go on from the subject to imply <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/abstract-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Abstract art'"><span>abstract</span></a> notions of seasons and ages. The design of 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is based on a network of right angles, and suggests in turn that there is nothing casual about the work of the cowherd.<br/>Stott lived at Amberley in Sussex, and the view may be based on that area, although he did not work directly from nature.</p>
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<p><b>N03670</b> CHANGING PASTURES 1893</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Edward - Stott’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 27 3/4×34 1/2 (70·5×87·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase 1922.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> John Maddocks by 1897, sold Christie's, 30 April 1910 (94), bt. W. Permain; Charles Roberts by 1920, from whom purchased by the Chantrey Committee.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
New Gallery, summer 1893 (91, repr. in outline p.40); Earls Court, 1897 (559); <i>Loan Collection of Modern Paintings</i>, Leinster Hall, Dublin, April 1899 (70); Rochdale, March–April 1920 (160); R.A., <i>Works by Recently Deceased Members</i>, January–February 1922 (94).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1922, p.125.</p>
<p>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/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> study, 23 3/4×18 1/2 in., for this picture was sold at Sotheby's, 3–4 July 1918 (2nd day, 257), as ‘Girl Standing’.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-05T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
agriculture and fishing animals: mammals architecture astronomy children cow England England, South East England, Southern fence field gate girl herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, cowherd landscape people places sun Sussex - non-specific townscapes / man-made features UK counties UK countries and regions work and occupations