Oil paint on canvas
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Line Life
Bequeathed by the artist 1933
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
architecture
chair
creeper
features
fine arts and music
food and drink
fortune telling
fruit, grape
furnishings
garden
garden structures
group
groups
heating and lighting
instrument, violin
lantern
looking / watching
magic and occultism
man
objects
people
plants and flowers
religion and belief
rose
sitting
sunset
talking
terrace
times of the day
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Line of Life
support: 952 × 1016 mm
frame: 1235 × 1285 × 115 mm
Bequeathed by the artist 1933
<p><b>N04676</b> LINE OF LIFE 1915</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Wm. Shackleton 15’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 37 1/2×40 (95×101·5).
<br/>Bequeathed by the artist 1933.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1915 (87); Leicester Galleries, February–March 1922 (15); Barbizon House, April 1927 (17).</p>
<p>In the catalogue to the Leicester Galleries exhibition of 1922 the artist wrote this note about ‘The Line of Life’: ‘This picture was painted in 1915, when we were all profoundly stirred with the deep meanings of life and destiny, and wondered what the future might have in store.’</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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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults architecture chair creeper features fine arts and music food and drink fortune telling fruit, grape furnishings garden garden structures group groups heating and lighting instrument, violin lantern looking / watching magic and occultism man objects people plants and flowers religion and belief rose sitting sunset talking terrace times of the day woman