Oil paint on canvas
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Maes Gwyn Stack Yard
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1939
painting oil paint canvas
Maes Gwyn Stack Yard
support: 914 × 1219 mm
frame: 1018 × 1324 × 75 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> 1939
<p><b>N05328</b> MAES GWYN STACK YARD 1935
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Albert Houthuesen 1935’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 36×48 (91·5×122).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1939.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
N.E.A.C., October–November 1936 (127); R.A., 1939 (468).</p>
<p>The picture was painted out of doors at Maes Gwyn Farm, Llanara, near Holywell, North Wales, where the artist was staying. In a letter (23 March 1958) he recalls his impressions: ‘A wonderful landscape wherever one looked, and in the village lived colliers who worked at the Point of Air colliery, two or three miles away on the coast. <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> in the open or near a cottage I heard women singing beautifully, not snatches of song but complete melodies. I cannot tell you how much the character of the whole place and the people fascinated me.’</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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