Landscape with Fallen Branches
Gouache on paper
1942-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
John Craxton was born in London, the son of composer Harold Craxton. He studied in Paris during 1939, but the war meant he completed his studies in London, at Westminster and Central Schools of Art. From 1941-1942, having been rejected for military service, he attended Goldsmiths College, before touring Pembrokeshire with Graham Sutherland in 1943. His first solo exhibition was in London in 1942. Craxton visited Greece for the first time in 1946 and travelled around the Cyclades and Dodecanese Islands. In 1948 he made his first visit to Crete, where he settled permanently in 1977, while retaining a studio in London. He has exhibited widely in both England and Greece. A major retrospective show was held at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1967.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- landscape C20th, branch, plant, tree, field
- Materials & Techniques
- paper (as artists material), gouache (as artists material), gouache (as object name)
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Details
- Artist
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John Craxton (1922 - 2009)
- Title
- Landscape with Fallen Branches
- Date
- 1942
- Medium
- Gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- height: 39.50 cm, width: 53.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the Kensington Art Gallery, March 1953
- Inscription
- none
- Provenance
- Collection of the artist; sold through 'Aid to Russia' exhibition, Hampstead, 1942; with Kensington Art Gallery, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in April 1953
- GAC number
- 2113