Oil paint on canvas
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/roland-vivian-pitchforth-1778" aria-label="More by Roland Vivian Pitchforth" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Roland Vivian Pitchforth</a>
Night Transport
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
animals: mammals
architecture
headlamp
hill
landscape
lorry
night
rabbit
road
society
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
<p>The charms of the interwar countryside were much advertised by petrol companies such as Shell. Yet the increasingly busy roads that made rural excursions possible were generally not part of the attraction.</p><p>Roland Pitchforth noted ‘I had been interested in this type of subject for about 3 years previously... going out many evenings under similar conditions observing lorries and petrol wagons etc.’ ‘Pool’ was a wartime government scheme in which the various petrol companies worked together. It would survive into the early 1950s, longer than Pitchforth’s rabbit.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2003</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
10 March 2003 – July 2003
Mar 2003 – July 2003
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-10
Broken Ground
Collection based display
Night Transport
support: 508 × 762 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> 1940
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    The charms of the interwar countryside were much      advertised by petrol companies such as Shell.      Yet the increasingly busy roads that made rural      excursions possible were generally not part of the attraction.  </div>
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    Roland Pitchforth noted ‘I had been interested      in this type of subject for  about 3 years previously... going out  many evenings under similar conditions observing lorries and      petrol wagons etc.’ ‘Pool’ was a wartime government      scheme in which the various petrol companies worked together. It would survive into the early 1950s,      longer than Pitchforth’s rabbit.  </div>

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2003-05-07T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05173</b> NIGHT TRANSPORT 1939–40</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Pitchforth’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on canvas on board, 20×30 (51×76).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist through the Leicester Galleries 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>England in Wartime</i>, Leicester Galleries, May 1940 (22); R.A., 1941 (78), as ‘Road Transport’.</p>
<p>Painted for the Leicester Galleries exhibition. ‘I had been interested in this type of subject for about 3 years previously and had done odd pictures from notes made during return visits from the coast by car, going out many evenings under similar conditions observing lorries and petrol wagons etc. which fixed the conception’ (letter from the artist, 25 November 1955).</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
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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animals: mammals architecture headlamp hill landscape lorry night rabbit road society times of the day townscapes / man-made features transport: land