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Landing Stage Greenhithe
Bequeathed by Harwood C. Laurence through the Art Fund 1949
architecture
boat - non-specific
boat, fishing
dock
dockyard
England
England, South East
England, Southern
Greenhithe
harbour
industrial
Kent
places
seascapes and coasts
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
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paper unique watercolour
The Landing Stage, Greenhithe
support: 241 × 311 mm
Bequeathed by Harwood C. Laurence through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1949
<p><b>N05891</b> THE LANDING STAGE, GREENHITHE 1932</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘P. W. Steer 1932’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 9 1/2×12 1/4 (24×31·25).
<br/>Bequeathed by Harwood C. Laurence through the National Art-Collections Fund 1949.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased from the artist by H. C. Laurence 1932 (Collins Baker card-index, British Museum).
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
N.E.A.C., November–December 1932 (17), as ‘The Landing Place’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> MacColl, 1945, pp.118–19, 121.</p>
<p>This and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steer-low-tide-greenhithe-t00126" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T00126</span></a> were painted the same year, and MacColl (<i>op. cit.</i>, p. 119) quotes from G. L. Behrend's account of Steer's <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> methods and describes how Steer would choose unfashionable, and therefore less crowded, holiday resorts. During the summer of 1932 Behrend and Steer had a particularly successful stay at Greenhithe.</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
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture boat, fishing boat - non-specific dock dockyard England England, South East England, Southern Greenhithe harbour industrial Kent places seascapes and coasts society townscapes / man-made features transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions