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Landscape North Wales
Presented by Mrs Hazel McKinley 1938
agricultural
architecture
Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire
farm
hill
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Porthmadog
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Snowdonia
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UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
Wales
wooded
<p>Landscape, North Wales shows a view near Portmadoc on the edge of Snowdonia. Ginesi and her husband, the artist Raymond Coxon (1896-1997), lived in Hammersmith for over sixty years and made repeated trips to Wales, the Pennines and the Lake District - areas where Ginesi felt, 'the landscape moves ¿ up and down, and round about'. The swiftly applied layers of colour show her response to the form of the landscape. They also reveal a knowledge of French landscape painters, notably Paul Cézanne and André Derain.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
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Landscape, North Wales
Support: 639 × 812mm
Frame: 882 × 1000 × 50mm
Presented by Mrs Hazel McKinley 1938
<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a>, North Wales shows a view near Portmadoc on the edge of Snowdonia. Ginesi  and her husband, the artist Raymond Coxon (1896-1997), lived in Hammersmith for over sixty years and made repeated trips to Wales, the Pennines and the Lake District - areas where Ginesi felt, 'the landscape moves ¿ up and down, and round about'. The swiftly applied layers of colour show her response to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/form" title="Glossary definition for 'Form'"><span>form</span></a> of the  landscape. They also reveal a knowledge of  French landscape painters, notably Paul Cézanne and André Derain.
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<div class="text1"><span class="Strong">Landscape, North Wales</span><span>
1937</span>
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<div class="text1"><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ginesi-landscape-north-wales-n04969" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04969</span></a>
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<div class="text1">Oil on canvas
<br/>639 x 812 (25 1/8 x 32) 
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<div class="text1">Inscribed in red paint, 'E.Ginesi 37' b.r. 
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<div class="text1">Presented by Mrs Hazel King-Farlow (subsequently Mrs Hazel McKinley) 1938 
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<div class="text1">Provenance:
<br/>Purchased from the artist by the donor 1938 
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<div class="text1">Exhibited:
<br/><span class="Emphasis">London Group</span>, Nov.-Dec. 1938 (151, as <span class="Emphasis">North Wales</span>) 
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<div class="text1">Literature:
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <span class="Emphasis">Tate Gallery: The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</span>, I, London 1964, p.238 
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<div class="text1"><span class="Emphasis"><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a>, North Wales</span> shows a view near Portmadoc on the edge of Snowdonia. It was painted after Ginesi and Coxon had travelled to Penrhyndeudraeth on the first of their numerous trips to Wales. Ginesi has recalled that on these trips she and Coxon would pitch a tent, to protect their <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>paintings</span></a> as much as themselves, from which they would walk for miles in different directions to work in isolation.<span>1</span> Though she did not specifically recall painting <span class="Emphasis">Landscape, North Wales</span> she was certain that it was painted on the spot, not least because she saw it as 'a bit crude'. This is borne out by the rapid and rough nature of the underdrawing, visible around the top of the mountain, and of the application of the paint itself. In addition to Wales, the two artists also made similar repeated trips to the Pennines and the Lake District, because in these places, Ginesi said, 'the landscape moves ... it moves up and down, and round about'.<span>2</span> Raymond Coxon's <span class="Emphasis">Mountain Landscape</span> which, though similar to <span class="Emphasis">Landscape, North Wales</span>, was painted in the Pennines, is also in the Tate Gallery collection (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N04968" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N04968');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N04968</span></a>). 
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<div class="text1">The paint in <span class="Emphasis">Landscape, North Wales</span> has been applied in multiple layers over a thick white ground. The use of such a ground gives the colours a rich luminosity which, with the expressive brushwork, creates the picture's characteristic vivacity. In this regard it recalls some of the earlier work of artists associated with the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/seven-and-five-society" title="Glossary definition for 'Seven and Five Society'"><span>7 &amp; 5</span></a> Society like Ivon Hitchens and Frances Hodgkins. It also indicates Ginesi's knowledge of French painting: her use of short brushmarks reveal her debt to Cézanne and the overall tenor of the painting is similar to the landscapes of André Derain whose work was widely exhibited in London in the 1930s. 
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<div class="text1">Both <span class="Emphasis">Landscape, North Wales</span> and <span class="Emphasis">Everglades</span>
(Tate Gallery <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/T00688" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'T00688');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>T00688</span></a>) were purchased by Mrs Hazel McKinley (formerly Mrs Hazel King-Farlow) for presentation to the Tate Gallery. She presented <span class="Emphasis">Landscape, North Wales</span> at the same time as Raymond Coxon's <span class="Emphasis">Mountain Landscape</span>, a month after the board of trustees had accepted her gift of Kandinsky's <span class="Emphasis">Cossacks</span>
(<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/N04948" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'N04948');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>N04948</span></a>). A painter herself, Hazel McKinley (1903-1995) was taught by Coxon and Ginesi while they were still at the Royal College of Art. The sister of the famous collector Peggy Guggenheim, she lived, at various times, in London and America and for a period had a gallery in Hollywood. An exhibition of her views of London in 1965 included a number of paintings of Hammersmith Terrace, where the Coxons had their home. 
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<div class="text1">Chris Stephens
<br/>March 1996 
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<div class="text1"><span>1</span> Interview with the author, 7 Feb. 1996
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Ibid.
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2004-09-15T00:00:00
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agricultural architecture Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire farm hill landscape places Porthmadog road Snowdonia townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Wales wooded