Oil paint on canvas
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/reginald-brundrit-825" aria-label="More by Reginald Brundrit" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Reginald Brundrit</a>
Fresh Air Stubbs
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1938
painting oil paint canvas
Fresh Air Stubbs
support: 965 × 889 mm
frame: 1174 × 1098 × 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> 1938
<p><b>N05327</b> FRESH AIR STUBBS <i>c.</i> 1938
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Brundrit’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 38×35 (97×88).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1938.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1939 (477).</p>
<p>‘The subject of this <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> is a sporting innkeeper well known in upper Wharfedale. He gained his nickname “Fresh Air” in early youth and has retained it throughout his life. It sprang originally from his pert reply, as a very small boy, to the question “To what do you owe your rosy cheeks?” I chose him as a model because apart from his rich pictorial quality he was such an essentially English type’ (letter from the artist, 11 February 1960).</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</p>
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