James Dickson Innes

The Waterfall

1910

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Artist: James Dickson Innes 1887–1914
Medium: Watercolour and gouache on paper
Dimensions: Support: 286 × 394 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1922
Reference: N03804

Catalogue entry

N03804 THE WATERFALL 1910

Inscr. ‘J D I 1910’ b.r.
Watercolour, 11 1/4×15 1/2 (28·5×39).
Chantrey Purchase from Louis Clarke 1922.
Coll: Euphemia Lamb; Louis Clarke by 1921.
Exh: N.E.A.C., winter 1910 (220); Tate Gallery, November 1921 (12).
Lit: Randolph Schwabe, ‘Reminiscences of Fellow Students’ in Burlington Magazine, LXXXII, 1943, p.6, repr.; Fothergill, 1946, p.9, repr. pl.15; John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Lewis to Moore, 1956, pp.67, 69, repr. facing p.73.
Repr: Tate Gallery Illustrations, 1928, pl.199; Sir John Rothenstein, British Art since 1900, 1962, pl.48.

Another, less stylized watercolour of this subject, probably done as a preliminary drawing for N03804, was lent to Sheffield, Swansea and Aberystwyth, March–May 1961 (102), by Gerald Summers; it measures 10×14 1/2 in.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I