In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- David Cox 1783–1859
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 267 x 362 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Travers Buxton 1945
- Reference
- N05616
Display caption
Cox began to break down the dense washes of his earlier style towards a new fragmentation, that was unlike the
fine hatching and stippling of watercolour stalwarts like Hunt. Instead he used a looser, highly flexible method of painting
in nervous flicks of the brush. This reinterpretation of the techniques of JR Cozens was to become Cox’s unmistakable style. He abandoned the
sombre colour of the earlier manner and adopted a fresh, naturalistic palette that set a standard of informal realism matched by none of his contemporaries except Constable. Artists such as Cox explored the physical qualities of air and sky with unprecedented insight.
Gallery label, September 2004
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