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Gleaners Coming Home
Presented by C.N. Luxmoore 1929
actions: processes and functions
adults
agriculture and fishing
architecture
boy
bundle
carrying / holding
children
group
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<p>Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from fields after harvest. The right to glean fields was reserved for people experiencing poverty. It became a popular subject in Victorian art but was often romanticised. This picture of women and children burdened with heavy loads, is set in Essex. Their hardship is apparent in their stances and empty gazes. Contemporary critics, however, mostly focused on Clausen’s style: ‘they carry the sun with them as they walk: they are absorbed in heat and colour’ (Pall Mall Gazette). Clausen dedicated his art to painting scenes of rural life.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2020</em></p>
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Gleaners Coming Home
support: 927 × 1226 mm
frame: 1125 × 1435 × 100 mm
Presented by C.N. Luxmoore 1929
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<p>Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from fields after harvest. The right to glean fields was reserved for people experiencing poverty. It became a popular subject in Victorian art but was often romanticised. This picture of women and children burdened with heavy loads, is set in Essex. Their hardship is apparent in their stances and empty gazes. Contemporary critics, however, mostly focused on Clausen’s style: ‘they carry the sun with them as they walk: they are absorbed in heat and colour’ (Pall Mall Gazette). Clausen dedicated his art to painting scenes of rural life.</p>
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<p><b>N04486</b> GLEANERS COMING HOME 1904
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<br/>Inscr. ‘G. Clausen 1904’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 36 1/2×48 1/4 (93×122·5).
<br/>Presented by C. N. Luxmoore 1929.
<br/><i>Coll:</i>
Purchased by C. N. Luxmoore from the artist.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1904 (258); <i>Modern Paintings and Prints</i>, Manchester, 1910 (117).
<br/><i>Repr:</i>
<i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1904, p.95; National Gallery, Millbank [Tate Gallery], <i>Review of the Acquisitions, 1927–29</i>, 1930, p.32.
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<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
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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actions: processes and functions adults agriculture and fishing architecture boy bundle carrying / holding children group groups harvesting landscape miscellaneous objects people road sack sunshine townscapes / man-made features vessels and containers weather woman wooded work and occupations