Oil paint on canvas
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Donkeys and Kites
Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
boy
children
cloud
coast
donkey
England
England, South East
England, Southern
field
girl
group
groups
house
kite
landscape
leisure and pastimes
Littlehampton
man
objects
people
places
playing
pram
recreational activities
residential
riding
seascapes and coasts
sitting
society
standing
sunshine
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
toys and models
transport: land
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
walking
weather
woman
painting oil paint canvas
Donkeys and Kites
support: 762 × 1016 mm
Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914
<p><b>N02994</b> DONKEYS AND KITES <i>c.</i> 1909</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘W. Russell’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 30×40 (76×101·5).
<br/>Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1914.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Francis Howard from the artist.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., summer 1909 (56); Goupil Gallery, April 1910 (49); International Society, autumn 1914 (among works purchased for presentation to the Tate).</p>
<p>Francis Howard wrote (31 January 1953) that as far as he could remember this was painted at Littlehampton about 1912–13, but his recollection of the date appears to be wrong.</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, II
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Catalogue entry
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults animals: mammals architecture boy children cloud coast donkey England England, South East England, Southern field girl group groups house kite landscape leisure and pastimes Littlehampton man objects people places playing pram recreational activities residential riding seascapes and coasts sitting society standing sunshine Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features toys and models transport: land UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions walking weather woman