Sir George Clausen

The Gleaners Returning

1908

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Artist: Sir George Clausen 1852–1944
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 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

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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