Graphite and watercolour on paper
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Terrace
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940
architecture
balcony
boat - non-specific
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
flower
Hove - non-specific
objects
places
plants and flowers
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, East
terrace
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
vase
vessels and containers
<p>Like many artists of the inter-war years Jones was attracted to views through windows. The window provided a strong compositional frame, allowing artists to contrast foreground and distance within an apparently logical representation of space. 'The Terrace', painted at Portslade, near Brighton, seems to celebrate the goodness of nature. The bright light pouring in through the window dissolves all hard edges, while the sea breeze plays with the curtains and table cloth. The colours, pale red, cool blue and lemon yellow, create a sense of the temperature, suggesting a visual equivalent for the warm sun and cool breeze. This work may also owe a debt to Turner, whose works Jones particularly admired at this time.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 1995</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
12 November 2022 – 23 April 2023
2023-04-23
12 November 2022 – 23 April 2023
2023-04-23
2022-11-12
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2022-11-12
Chichester Canal
Loan-out
9 April 2025 – 28 September 2025
2025-09-28
9 April 2025 – 28 September 2025
2025-09-28
2025-04-09
Towner (Eastbourne, UK)
http://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/
2025-04-09
Provincial! Modernism to the Mods
Loan-out
The Terrace
support: 648 × 502 mm
frame: 846 × 690 × 45 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> 1940
<p>Like many artists of the inter-war years Jones was attracted to views through windows. The window provided a strong compositional frame, allowing artists to contrast foreground and distance within an apparently logical representation of space. 'The Terrace', painted at Portslade, near Brighton, seems to celebrate the goodness of nature. The bright light pouring in through the window dissolves all hard edges, while the sea breeze plays with the curtains and table cloth. The colours, pale red, cool blue and lemon yellow, create a sense of the temperature, suggesting a visual equivalent for the warm sun and cool breeze. This work may also owe a debt to Turner, whose works Jones particularly admired at this time.</p>
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1995-03-13T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05128</b> THE TERRACE 1929
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<br/>Inscr. ‘David Jones' 29’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 25 1/2×19 3/4 (65×50).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. 1940, possibly from the Redfern Gallery.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) Goupil Gallery, March 1929 (13), as ‘Terrace overlooking Sea’; (?) Redfern Gallery, January 1940 (6), as ‘Verandah by the Sea’; C.E.M.A. tour, 1944 (5); Arts Council Welsh tour and Tate Gallery, 1954–5 (17).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
Ironside, 1949, pl.3 (in colour); <i>Studio</i>, CXLIX, 1955, p.107 (in colour).</p>
<p>One of a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> painted from the veranda of a bungalow at Portslade near Hove, where the artist stayed from time to time with his parents from 1927 onwards; it may have been the work exhibited at the Goupil Gallery, 1929. He wrote (see Ede in <i>Horizon</i>, VIII, 1943, p.131, and the copy of a biographical statement of 5 September 1935 at the Tate Gallery), that ‘I always work from the window of a house if it is at all possible. I like looking out on the world from a reasonably sheltered position. I can't paint in the wind, and I like the indoors-outdoors, contained yet limitless feeling of windows and doors.’</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
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture balcony boat - non-specific England England, South East England, Southern features flower Hove - non-specific objects places plants and flowers sea seascapes and coasts society Sussex, East Sussex - non-specific terrace transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions vase vessels and containers