Sir George ClausenThe Gleaners Returning 1908

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Artwork details

Artist
Sir George Clausen (1852‑1944)
Title
The Gleaners Returning
Date 1908
MediumOil paint on canvas
Dimensionssupport: 838 x 660 mm frame: 1045 x 8066 x 103 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1908
Reference
N02259
Not on display

Catalogue entry

N02259 THE GLEANERS RETURNING 1908
 
Inscr. ‘G. Clausen, 1908.’ b.l. and on the back of canvas, ‘The Gleaners returning G. Clausen 1908’.
Canvas, 33×26 (84×66).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1908.
Exh: R.A., 1908 (4).
Lit: D[yneley] H[ussey], George Clausen, 1923, pp.22–3, repr. pl.5; J.B. Manson, The Tate Gallery, 1929, p.124.
Repr: Royal Academy Pictures, 1908, p.15; Sir Joseph Duveen, Thirty Years of British Art, 1930, p.63 (in colour).

Clausen was elected R.A. in 1908.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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