Oil paint on canvas
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Turkeys
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1935
agricultural
animals: birds
architecture
landscape
livestock pen
turkey
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
Turkeys
support: 508 × 762 mm
frame: 703 × 953 × 100 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1935
<p><b>N04800</b> TURKEYS 1925</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 20×30 (51×76).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1935.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. from Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons 1931.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Pictures Acquired by the C.A.S.</i>, Tooth's September–October 1932 (24).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>C.A.S. Report 1930–31</i>, 1932, p.5.</p>
<p>The artist wrote (15 August 1951) that this work was painted in 1925.</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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2004-07-20T00:00:00
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agricultural animals: birds architecture landscape livestock pen turkey wooded