Robert MedleyA Tree Study 1959

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Artwork details

Artist
Robert Medley (1905‑1994)
Title
A Tree Study
Date 1959
MediumOil paint on canvas
Dimensionssupport: 762 x 629 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition Purchased 1960
Reference
T00331
Not on display

Catalogue entry

T00331 A TREE STUDY 1959

Inscr. ‘Robert Medley’ b.r.
Canvas, 30×24 3/4 (76×63).
Purchased from the artist through the Leicester Galleries (Grant-in-Aid) 1960.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, February 1960 (8); Whitechapel Art Gallery, November–December 1963 (66).

Painted in August 1959 (letter from the artist, 16 March 1960). For a sketch see T00332.

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

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