Catalogue entry
T04946 Harvest c.1940
Oil on hardboard 910 × 1222 (35 7/8 × 48 1/8)
Not inscribed
Presented by Betty Swanwick 1987
Prov: Inherited from the artist by Eric Oliver 1948; lent to Goldsmith's School of Art 1949; given to Betty Swanwick 1958
Exh: Denton Welch (1915–48): An Exhibition of Pictures, Leicester Galleries, May–June 1954 (38)
Lit: G.S. Whitter, ‘London Commentary’, Studio,vol.148, Aug.1954, p.59
At the centre of ‘Harvest’ is a dancing male youth, wearing an apparently antique costume. To the right a buxom female figure in classical or neo-classical dress stands on a garlanded plinth. Her head is obscured by a branch of a tree and she holds a cornucopia of fruit and foliage. Another male figure, again partly obscured by the tree, also wears antique costume. A large brown horse stands at front left. The figures and animal are set in the countryside, in front of a field of corn, two trees and rounded hills in the distance. The corn has been partly harvested… (read more)
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