In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- John Piper 1903–1992
- Medium
- Screenprint on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 635 × 838 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1976
- Reference
- P05406
Display caption
Most of Piper’s landscapes were in southern Britain, but he worked in the whole of Britain and Ireland. He made several working trips to Scotland, including a visit to Skye. This little farm building is in ruins, but Piper strongly opposed the repair and tidying of ruined buildings. He preferred to see them collapse and return to nature, an aesthetic principle he described as ‘pleasing decay’.
Piper sketched and photographed on the spot, but made most of his drawings in his studio in the Chilterns near Henley. Here he would assemble photographs, drawings and guidebooks around him as he drew.
Gallery label, July 2008
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