
Not on display
- Artist
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 610 × 660 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1943
- Reference
- N05428
Display caption
In his youth Duncan Grant had been a leading avant-garde painter and designer, a key member of the Bloomsbury group and co-founder of the Omega workshops. He produced an enormous body of work in a variety of styles and subjects. This was painted in the rick-yard at Charleston, home of Grant and Vanessa Bell in Sussex. The hayrick is depicted as a tall, elegant but fragile structure, which harmonises with its natural environment. In the 1930s a number of societies were founded to oppose the destruction of the English countryside. During the war rural England became central to national identity, and threatened by aerial bombardment it became even more precious.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
N05428 THE HAYRICK 1940
Inscr. ‘D Grant 40.’ b.r.
Canvas, 24×26 (61×66).
Purchased from the Lefevre Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1943.
Exh: Robert Colquhoun and Notable British Artists, Lefevre Gallery, June 1943 (9).
Repr: Mortimer, 1944, pl.29 (in colour).
Painted in the rick-yard at Charleston (letter from the artist, 9 October 1962).!
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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