Oil paint on canvas
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Ben Ledi
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917
Ben Ledi
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painting oil paint canvas
Ben Ledi
support: 1265 × 1120 mm
frame: 1555 × 1400 × 110 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1917
<p><b>N03209</b>	BEN LEDI, EARLY SPRING 1914
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<br/>Inscr. ‘D. Y. Cameron’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 51 1/2×45 1/2 (131×115·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. from the artist 1914.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1914 (750); C.A.S., <i>Modern Paintings</i>, Belfast, November 1914 (27).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1914, p.108; <i>C.A.S. Report 1914–19</i>, 1920, pl.2.</p>
<p>A view of the snowclad Ben Ledi, Stirlingshire, painted early in 1914. An <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a> of this subject, taken from a nearly identical viewpoint, is reproduced in Arthur M. Hind's <i>The Etchings of D. Y. Cameron</i>, 1924, pl.73, and is dated by Frank Rinder to 1911 (R.424, II). Cameron moved to Kippen, Stirlingshire, in 1898 and this remained his home for the rest of his career. His house, Dun Eaglais, commanded a view of Ben Ledi and the Grampians.</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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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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Ben Ledi farmland field landscape mountain places Scotland snow Stirling UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features weather