The Downs near Wilmington

Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)

Oil on board

1926

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
  • About the artist
    Duncan Grant was born in Inverness in 1885. He studied at Westminster School of Art and also in Paris - where he met Matisse and Picasso - and at the Slade in London. From 1908 he was part of the Bloomsbury group, that included Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry. Grant’s painting style was influenced by the post-Impressionist exhibitions of 1910 and 1912 that Fry organised in London. With Fry and Bell, Grant founded the Omega Workshops to make decorative works. In his later years he lived at Charleston, Sussex, with Vanessa Bell. The pair travelled widely in Europe and spent much time in the South of France. After Bell's death in 1961, he continued painting and travelling and died in 1978 of pneumonia.
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    Places
    Sussex, East Sussex, South Downs
    Subjects
    landscape (as genre), landscape C20th, tree, downland, Built environment & spaces, farm
    Materials & Techniques
    board, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978)
    Title
    The Downs near Wilmington
    Date
    1926
    Medium
    Oil on board
    Dimensions
    height: 54.8 cm, width: 80.8 cm
    Acquisition
    Transferred from the Ministry of Defence, April 2017
    Inscription
    br: D. Grant /26 [?]
    Provenance
    With Ernest, Brown and Phillips, London 1926; Ministry of Defence Collection; transferred to GAC 2017
    GAC number
    18718