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- Artist
- Leonard Appelbee 1914–2000
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 457 × 660 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
- Reference
- N05342
Display caption
Leonard Appelbee defined himself proudly as a traditionalist. Determinedly ignoring the move towards abstraction, he maintained a love of traditional subject matter and technique, as demonstrated in this early painting of a group of outhouses near the Buckinghamshire village of Meadle. As his career progressed he became increasingly disillusioned with the growing commercialism of the art world. Looking back he explained that he had not been motivated by a desire for fame or financial reward. '' I painted,'' he said, '' because I felt that one day someone may feel better for seeing what I do.''
Gallery label, August 2004
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Catalogue entry
N05342 LANDSCAPE, MEADLE 1939
Inscr. ‘Leonard Appelbee 39’ b.r.
Canvas, 18×26 (45×66).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
Exh: C.A.S., British Painting Today,
Bath, May–June 1940 (42); R.A., 1944 (14).
A group of outhouses painted near the Buckinghamshire village of Meadle, which is situated some three miles north of Princes Risborough.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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