Watercolour, chalk and graphite on paper
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Dorset Landscape
Purchased 1940
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paper unique watercolour chalk graphite
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2021-05-01
John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace
Loan-out
Dorset Landscape
visible support: 413 × 387 mm
frame: 713 × 560 × 23 mm
Purchased 1940
<p><b>N05140</b> A DORSET LANDSCAPE <i>c.</i> 1915</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Pencil, chalks and watercolour, 16 1/4×15 1/4 (41·5×38·5).
<br/>Purchased at the Redfern Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Montague Shearman by 1921.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) London Group, June 1916 (54), as ‘A Dorset Landscape’; Goupil Gallery, February 1921 (89); <i>The Montague Shearman Collection</i>, Redfern Gallery, April–May 1940 (115), as ‘Berkshire Landscape’.</p>
<p>Painted <i>c.</i> 1915 at Tonerspuddle, Dorset, while working on an abortive project to decorate the village hall at Bryantspuddle (letter from the artist, 18 October 1952). The artist agrees that this is probably the work exhibited with 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/l/london-group" title="Glossary definition for 'London Group'"><span>London Group</span></a> in 1916 (letter of 12 April 1958); works entitled ‘<a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>Landscape</span></a> in Dorset’ were exhibited with 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/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>., winter 1916 (9), and the London Group, April–May 1917 (73). At one time catalogued as ‘Berkshire Landscape’.</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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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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agriculture, gardening & fishing cloud Dorset England England, Southern England, South West farmland haystack hill landscape objects places UK counties UK countries and regions weather