Derek Boshier

Frightened Cowboy

1980

© Derek Boshier

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Not on display

Artist: Derek Boshier born 1937
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Unconfirmed: 1549 x 991 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented anonymously 1998
Reference: T07473

Technique and condition

The artist selected cotton canvas to paint this version of the Cowboy series. A white priming covers the front and to some extent the back. Thinned oil paint is visible at the edge of the figure and around the figures indicating that the figure was drawn before being blocked in with one flesh colour. Some darker and lighter cream coloured paint was then added to create a little form. Thick paint has then been applied around the figure. The sky area has been smothered in brush textured paint, horizontally brushmarked with decisive strokes forming ridges of impasto. Some of this paint is clearly applied wet in wet.

Tim Green
December 1998
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