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Figures on Beach Walberswick
Purchased 1947
adults
beach
boat, sailing
child
children
East Anglia
England
England, East
figure
people
places
sea
seascapes and coasts
seasons
society
Suffolk
summer
sunshine
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
Walberswick
weather
<p>With hatched brushstrokes Steer has worked quickly and spontaneously to evoke the mood of a bright summer's day on the beach at Walberswick, showing the view out to sea with yachts on the horizon.The figures have been drawn in quickly and fluidly with the brush, and Steer probably painted the whole picture at one sitting. There is no sign of any underdrawing.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 1994</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
6 July 2001 – 6 January 2002
2002-01-06
6 July 2001 – 6 January 2002
2002-01-06
2001-07-06
Palazzo Martinengo (Brescia, Italy)
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2002-02-28
2001-12-01
Museo Archeologico Regionale (Aosta, Italy)
2001-07-06
Impressionisms in Europe
Loan-out
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
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2006-12-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-06-23
Philip Wilson Steer The British Impressionist
Collection based display
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
8 July 2021 – 14 November 2021
2021-11-14
2021-07-08
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
20 December 2021 – 8 May 2022
2022-05-08
2021-12-20
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
25 February 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-02-25
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
Light
Tate partnerships & programmes
Figures on the Beach, Walberswick
support: 610 × 610 mm
frame: 780 × 790 × 110 mm
Purchased 1947
<p>With hatched brushstrokes Steer has worked quickly and spontaneously to evoke the mood of a bright summer's day on the beach at Walberswick, showing the view out to sea with yachts on the horizon.<br/>The figures have been drawn in quickly and fluidly with the brush, and Steer probably painted the whole picture at one sitting. There is no sign of any underdrawing.</p>
Display caption
1994-09-30T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N05766</b> FIGURES ON THE BEACH, WALBERSWICK <i>c.</i> 1888–9</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 24×24 (61×61).
<br/>Purchased from Humphrey Brooke (Knapping Fund) 1947.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Steer Sale, Christie's, 16 July 1942 (147), bt. Barbizon House; H. J. Paterson; Nicholson Gallery where purchased by Humphrey Brooke 1943.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> MacColl, 1945, p.190, as painted 1888.</p>
<p>MacColl dates this work 1888, and either it or <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/steer-the-beach-at-walberswick-n05351" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05351</span></a> may be identical with ‘The Beach, Walberswick’ shown at the <i><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/b/british-impressionism" title="Glossary definition for 'British Impressionism'"><span>London Impressionists</span></a></i>
exhibition 1889.</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
adults beach boat, sailing child children East Anglia England England, East figure people places sea seascapes and coasts seasons society Suffolk summer sunshine transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions Walberswick weather