Watercolour on paper
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Tree
Purchased 1940
architecture
branch
decay
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
England, South East
England, Southern
environment / nature
Kent
places
pollution
Ridley
social comment
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
universal concepts
<p>The author HJ Massingham once remarked 'there is a touch of the supernatural about the waving and aspiring upper branches of Hennell’s trees’. This ancient specimen may have fallen through natural causes, but it here communicates Hennell’s respect for an organic order he felt to be disregarded and threatened by the urban civilisation nearby.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2003</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
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
The Tree
support: 318 × 483 mm
Purchased 1940
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    The author HJ Massingham once remarked 'there is a touch of the supernatural about      the waving and aspiring upper branches  of Hennell’s trees’.      This ancient specimen may have fallen through natural causes, but it here communicates Hennell’s  respect for an      organic order he felt to  be disregarded and threatened by the urban civilisation nearby.  </div>

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2003-05-07T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05412</b> THE TREE <i>c.</i> 1938–40
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<br/>Inscr. ‘T. Hennell’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 12 1/2×19 (32×48).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.</p>
<p>According to Miss Hennell, the artist's sister, the tree was probably drawn at West Yoke, Ash. Ash village is next to Ridley and Hennell's father was Rector of both parishes. Miss Kendon believes the date to be 1938–40. See <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hennell-landscape-flint-heap-road-making-n05287" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05287</span></a>.</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
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-21T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture branch decay emotions, concepts and ideas England England, South East England, Southern environment / nature Kent places pollution Ridley social comment society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions universal concepts