Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ambrose-mcevoy-1605" aria-label="More by Ambrose McEvoy" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ambrose McEvoy</a>
Ferry
Purchased 1930
actions: expressive
adults
child
children
embracing
hill
landscape
man
people
river
water: inland
woman
painting oil paint canvas
The Ferry
support: 794 × 578 mm
Purchased 1930
<p><b>N04496</b> THE FERRY 1909</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 31 1/2×22 1/4 (79×57·5).
<br/>Purchased from the artist's widow (Clarke Fund) 1930.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., summer 1909 (36).</p>
<p>This is the left-hand only of 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> exhibited in 1909, the right-hand portion, which is also in the Tate Gallery (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mcevoy-euphemia-n04447" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N04447</span></a>), having been subsequently cut off. A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> for the whole <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> belonged to the artist's widow.</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults child children embracing hill landscape man people river water: inland woman