Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/arthur-friedenson-1121" aria-label="More by Arthur Friedenson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Arthur Friedenson</a>
Runswick Bay
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1907
adults
animals: birds
architecture
chicken
children
coast
cottage
England
England, Northern
features
girl
hill
landscape
people
places
residential
Runswick Bay
seascapes and coasts
stair / step
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
village
woman
Yorkshire, North
<p>Friedenson was born in Leeds and was initially apprenticed as a sign writer, before training as an artist in Paris and Antwerp. This picture shows the small Yorkshire fishing village of Runswick Bay. Rather in the manner of Newlyn in Cornwall, a colony of artists grew up there, and Friedenson visited it to work a number of times. It was here that he met his future wife, and after they married in November 1906, he returned to Runswick Bay the following spring in order to paint this picture. It was much admired at the Royal Academy that year, and purchased for the nation.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
Runswick Bay
support: 1025 × 1537 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> 1907
<p>Friedenson was born in Leeds and was initially  apprenticed as a sign writer, before training as  an artist in Paris and Antwerp. This picture shows  the small Yorkshire fishing village of Runswick  Bay. Rather in the manner 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/n/newlyn-school" title="Glossary definition for 'Newlyn School'"><span>Newlyn</span></a> in Cornwall, a  colony of artists grew up there, and Friedenson  visited it to work a number of times. It was here  that he met his future wife, and after they  married in November 1906, he returned to Runswick  Bay the following spring in order to paint this  picture. It was much admired at the Royal Academy  that year, and purchased for the nation.</p>
Display caption
2004-08-18T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N02138</b> RUNSWICK BAY 1907
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘Arthur Friedenson 1907’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 40 1/2×60 1/2 (103×154).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1907.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1907 (28).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1907, p.143; <i>Art Journal</i>, 1907, p.201.</p>
<p>Runswick Bay is a small Yorkshire fishing village, here seen from above looking south. The artist's son T.S. Friedenson wrote (13 December 1959): ‘Runswick Bay, Yorkshire, was a place he frequently visited. I believe there was quite a colony of artists who went there every summer -including Harold and Laura Knight. It was at Runswick he first met my mother, Lily Watson (who was the daughter of Thomas Watson, principal of the Harrogate School of Art); they were married at Edinburgh on November 5th, 1906. The following summer (1907) the picture of Runswick Bay... was painted.’</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>
<p></p>
<p></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
adults animals: birds architecture chicken children coast cottage England England, Northern features girl hill landscape people places residential Runswick Bay seascapes and coasts stair / step townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions village woman Yorkshire, North