Sir Walter Russell

Carting Sand

exhibited 1910

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Artist: Sir Walter Russell 1867–1949
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 864 × 1118 mm
frame: 1215 × 1475 × 120 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
Reference: N05105

Catalogue entry

N05105 CARTING SAND c. 1910

Inscr. ‘W. Russell’ b.r.
Canvas, 34×44 (86·5×112).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
Exh: Goupil Gallery, April 1910 (58); International Society, A Century of Art, Grafton Galleries, June–July 1911 (102); R.S.A., Edinburgh, 1939 (128); United Artists, R.A., January–March 1940 (259).
Repr: Studio, L, 1910, p.176.

The artist's exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in 1910 also included three watercolours and an oil painting entitled ‘The Sand Pit’; a painting called ‘The Sand Carters’ was reproduced in the Studio, LXXXIII, 1922, p.86.

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