Oil paint on canvas
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/adrian-stokes-527" aria-label="More by Adrian Stokes" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Adrian Stokes</a>
Uplands and Sky
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1888
animals: mammals
cloud
Cornwall
cow
England
England, South West
England, Southern
heathland
hill
landscape
places
sky
St Ives
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
painting oil paint canvas
31 January 2009 – 28 November 2009
2009-11-28
11 April 2009 – 12 June 2009
2009-06-12
2009-04-11
Atkinson Art Gallery (Southport, UK)
26 June 2009 – 6 September 2009
2009-09-06
2009-06-26
Mercer Art Gallery (Harrogate, UK)
http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/immediacy-1405#MercerArtGallery
19 September 2009 – 28 November 2009
2009-11-28
2009-09-19
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
19 September 2009 – 28 November 2009
2009-11-28
2009-09-19
Royal Cornwall Museum (Truro, UK)
http://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
2009-01-31
Marianne & Adrian Stokes
Loan-out
Uplands and Sky
support: 1492 × 2089 mm
frame: 1944 × 2565 × 120 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> 1888
<p><b>N01623</b> UPLANDS AND SKY 1886–8</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Adrian Stokes’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 58 3/4×82 1/4 (149×208·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1888.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1888 (1024).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Wilfrid Meynell, ‘Mr and Mrs Adrian Stokes’ in <i>Art Journal</i>, 1900, p.196.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Academy Notes</i>, 1888, p.103 (line-engraving); Sir Edward J. Poynter, <i>The National Gallery</i>, III, 1900, p.273</p>
<p>Described by Wilfrid Meynell (<i>loc. cit.</i>) as forming part of the series of <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> made while the artist was at St Ives, Cornwall, where he settled after his return from France in 1886. This would seem to be a view of the moor above the town.</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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2004-09-23T00:00:00
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animals: mammals cloud Cornwall cow England England, Southern England, South West heathland hill landscape places sky St Ives UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather