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Eclipse at Blandford
Purchased 1954
astronomy
Blandford Forum
Dorset
eclipse
England
England, South West
England, Southern
hill
landscape
night
places
star
times of the day
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
Eclipse at Blandford
support: 356 × 305 mm
Purchased 1954
<p><b>N06216</b> ECLIPSE AT BLANDFORD 1952
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<br/>Inscr. ‘C Rogers 52’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 14×12 (35×30).
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Kerr Fund) 1954.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, May–June 1954 (1).</p>
<p>Painted from notes 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> made during the eclipse of the moon in September 1950. The artist was <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> a <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of Mr Coade, Headmaster of Bryanston School, at the time and watched the eclipse from his study. He wrote (5 May 1955): ‘It was beautifully clear weather. I made a number of notes and drawings. The picture developed out of them. I took it up several times in the subsequent two or three years, scraping and repainting.... The lights in 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/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> are those at Blandford.’</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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astronomy Blandford Forum Dorset eclipse England England, Southern England, South West hill landscape night places star times of the day UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions wooded