Oil paint on canvas
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Cantering to Post
Purchased 1951
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20 March 2004 – 22 May 2004
2004-05-22
20 March 2004 – 22 May 2004
2004-05-22
2004-03-20
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
12 June 2004 – 5 September 2004
2004-09-05
2004-06-12
Graves Art Gallery (Sheffield, UK)
http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/graves.asp
2004-03-20
William Roberts: A Retrospective
Loan-out
20 January 2007 – 18 March 2007
2007-03-18
20 January 2007 – 18 March 2007
2007-03-18
2007-01-20
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2007-01-20
England at Play: The Cubist Life of William Roberts
Loan-out
Cantering to the Post
support: 610 × 508 mm

Purchased 1951
<p><b>N06018</b> CANTERING TO THE POST 1949</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Roberts’ b.l.</p>
<p>Canvas, 24×20 (61×51).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1951.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Artists of Fame and of Promise</i>, Leicester Galleries, July 1949 (172).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (23 July 1951) that this picture was painted early in 1949 and sent to the Royal <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/academy" title="Glossary definition for 'Academy'"><span>Academy</span></a> of that year. Although it was accepted by the Hanging Committee it was not hung, ‘perhaps because only the Munnings’ breed of Race horse is allowed to show its Paces there’.</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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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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adults animals: mammals equestrian and sporting horse horse racing jockey leisure and pastimes man people sport work and occupations