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Fountain
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1908
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
animals: actions
animals: mammals
architecture
arm / arms raised
bathing / swimming
crouching
female
fountain
garden structures
horse
landscape
leisure and pastimes
natural phenomena
nudes
people
pool
rainbow
rearing
recreational activities
sky
water
water: inland
waving
woman
painting oil paint canvas
The Fountain
support: 1022 × 1276 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1908
<p><b>N02260</b> THE FOUNTAIN 1908</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Sims’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 40 1/4×50 7/8 (102×128).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1908.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1908 (361); R.A., <i>Late Members</i>, winter 1933 (418).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Sims, 1934, pp.79, 108–9, repr. pl.16 facing p. 75.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1908, p.82; <i>Art Journal</i>, 1908, p.168.</p>
<p>Sims gave an account (<i>op. cit.</i>, pp.108–9) of the early stages of this work, the first layers of colour being brushed on in January 1908. At least six preliminary designs were made before the present <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> was settled, and the original idea of a group on a terrace waving to horsemen riding off in the early morning was gradually subordinated to the bathing figures composed around the base of a fountain.</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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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults animals: actions animals: mammals architecture arm / arms raised bathing / swimming crouching female fountain garden structures horse landscape leisure and pastimes natural phenomena nudes people pool rainbow rearing recreational activities sky water water: inland waving woman