Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-walker-2116" aria-label="More by John Walker" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Walker</a>
Conservatory II
Purchased 1981
abstraction
architecture
colour
conservatory
emotions, concepts and ideas
features
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
garden structures
gestural
man-made
non-representational
shutter
paper print screenprint
Conservatory II
image: 1448 × 1267 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07500</b> CONSERVATORY II 1979
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<br/>Both inscribed ‘Walker 79’ bottom right ‘I’ inscribed ‘Conservatory’ and ‘44/45’ ‘II’ inscribed ‘Conservatory II’ and ‘39/45’ Two screenprints, printed at Advanced Graphics and published by the artist, each approx. 57×48 1/2 (144.7×123) Purchased from Nigel Greenwood (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>Both <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/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/walker-conservatory-i-p07499" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07499</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/walker-conservatory-ii-p07500" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07500</span></a>] are based on 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/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> (no.8, repr. Drawings 1978, Nigel Greenwood Gallery), divided by a large tall triangular shape at the left. In ‘Conservatory II’, narrow louvred shutters frame this central image: a window, a balcony and shutters appear in a number of drawings (op.cit.) and the ‘Numinous’ <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>paintings</span></a>, all 1977–8. The tall triangle and flower and leaf shapes also appear in later drawings (see especially no.22, repr. Drawings 1981, Nigel Greenwood Gallery). A flower motif in ‘Conservatory I’ appears to be derived from a Japanese kimono pattern.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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abstraction architecture colour conservatory emotions, concepts and ideas features formal qualities from recognisable sources garden structures gestural man-made non-representational shutter