River and Distance with a Boat

Location

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The son of a painter, Ivon Hitchens was born in London and studied first at St John's Wood School of Art and then, until 1919, at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1920 Hitchens was a founder member of the artists' group, the Seven and Five Society, and exhibited regularly in their shows. During the war he moved with his family to rural Sussex where he lived and worked for the rest of his life, painting abstract landscapes in glorious colours on long, horizontal canvases. Hitchens produced a huge figurative mural for the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in London. He was created CBE in 1958. Retrospectives of his work were held in Leeds in 1945 and at the Royal Academy in 1979.

Places

Subjects

rowing boat, abstract, semi-figurative, landscape C20th, London Group, river

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Ivon Hitchens (1893 - 1979)

Title

River and Distance with a Boat

Date

1961

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 42.00 cm, width: 107.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, March 1965

Inscription

bl: Hitchens

Provenance

Consigned by Pastoral Painting Ltd., on behalf of the artist, to Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in March 1965

GAC number

6956