Oil paint on canvas
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Winter Landscape
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
architecture
Chiswick - non-specific
England
features
garden
garden structures
house
places
residential
seasons
shed
snow
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
UK countries and regions
UK London
weather
window
winter
painting oil paint canvas
Winter Landscape
support: 571 × 737 mm
Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940
<p><b>N05079</b> WINTER LANDSCAPE <i>c.</i> 1929</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 22 1/2×29 (57×73·5).
<br/>Bequeathed by Frank Hindley Smith 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) London Artists' Association, <i>Paintings of London</i>, Cooling Galleries, May–June 1931 (12), as ‘Snow in London’.</p>
<p>A friend of the artist, James Boswell, wrote that this ‘is a view from the back window of his house at 25 Grosvenor Road, Chiswick. The houses are the backs of those in Wellesley Road, and the big building on the right is the Gunnersbury Baptist Church on the corner of Burlington Road and Wellesley Road. The picture was probably painted in 1929. The Porters built and moved into their house in 1928 and that Christmas there was very heavy snow, so I expect he made sketches and <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>drawings</span></a> and worked from them. Some of the sheds in the foreground have been moved to help 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/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>. I don't think it could be a later picture as I remember him showing it to me while he was working on it and I didn't often visit his studio after 1931’ (letter of 26 January 1959).</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
2004-10-07T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture Chiswick - non-specific England features garden garden structures house places residential seasons shed snow townscape townscapes / man-made features UK countries and regions UK London weather window winter