Norwegian Landscape

  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Norway
    City: Oslo
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Harold Gilman was born in Rode, Somerset, and attended the Slade School of Art, London from 1897-1901. In 1907 he met the artists W.R. Sickert and Spencer Gore, and became one of the founders of Sickert’s Fitzroy Street Group. This became the Camden Town Group in 1911, which included Sickert, Gore, Lucien Pissarro and Gilman. Gilman visited Scandinavia several times and was influenced by the light. In 1914 Gilman and Charles Ginner issued a manifesto, Neo-Realism, calling artists to return to painting from nature. An exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in London that year included several Norwegian landscapes by Gilman. In 1919 Gilman caught flu, after having nursed Ginner - both artists caught pneumonia and Gilman died aged 43.
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  • Details
    Title
    Norwegian Landscape
    Date
    1913
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 51.00 cm, width: 61.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Leicester Galleries, June 1960
    Inscription
    br: H.Gilman verso, top stretcher bar: H.Gilman -/- SCANDINAVIAN LANDSCAPE and again beneath bown tape (barely visible): Harold Gilman
    Provenance
    Collection of Mrs Ackroyd; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in May 1960, as ‘Landscape’
    GAC number
    5218