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Line Plough
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1919
animals: birds
architecture
Blakeney
cloud
coast
East Anglia
England
England, East
farmland
industrial
landscape
Norfolk
places
sea
seagull
seascapes and coasts
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
windmill
<p>Sir Arnesby Brown was a Royal Academician who deliberately resisted Modernist influences, and a landscape painter known for his views of East Anglia.</p><p>This painting was exhibited in 1919, the year after the end of the First World War. Like other artists of this post-war moment (including Stanley Spencer), Brown enfolds the sweeping movement of the plough into the perspectives of the landscape. This suggests a harmonious integration that may have been particularly appreciated in contrast to the shattered landscapes of the war in France and Belgium.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
10 March 2003 – July 2003
Mar 2003 – July 2003
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-10
Broken Ground
Collection based display
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
15 June 2005 – 4 September 2005
2005-09-04
2005-06-15
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-06-15
A Picture of Britain
Exhibition
11 February 2013 – 2 June 2013
2013-06-02
12 February 2013 – 2 June 2013
2013-06-02
2013-02-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-02-11
Looking at the View
Collection based display
24 May 2014 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
24 May 2014 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
2014-05-24
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
2014-05-24
The Wonder of Birds
Loan-out
The Line of the Plough
support: 635 × 762 mm
frame: 940 × 1055 × 117 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> 1919
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    Sir Arnesby Brown was a Royal Academician who deliberately resisted      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/modernism" title="Glossary definition for 'Modernism'"><span>Modernist</span></a> influences, and 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/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> painter known for his views of East      Anglia.  </div>
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    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> was exhibited in 1919, the year after      the end of the First World War. Like other      artists of this post-war moment (including      Stanley Spencer), Brown enfolds the sweeping movement of the plough into the <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/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspectives</span></a> of      the landscape. This suggests a harmonious integration that may have been particularly appreciated in contrast to      the shattered landscapes of the war in France and Belgium.  </div>

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2004-09-08T00:00:00
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<p><b>N03448</b> THE LINE OF THE PLOUGH <i>c.</i> 1919
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Arnesby Brown’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 25×30 (63×76).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1919.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1919 (34); Norwich, July–September 1935 (8); Norwich, July–August 1959 (10).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1919, p.82; W. T. Whitley, <i>The Art Collections of the Nation </i>(<i>Studio Special Number</i>), 1920, p.111 (in colour).</p>
<p>Painted at Blakeney, Norfolk.</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>
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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animals: birds architecture Blakeney cloud coast East Anglia England England, East farmland industrial landscape Norfolk places sea seagull seascapes and coasts UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather windmill