Colin Self

‘Muckspreading again ...’ (Looking West - Evening. Fields and Farm in a Spinney - from South of Walcott near Happisburgh - towards Riddlington, Norfolk), 25 September 1983

1983

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Artist: Colin Self born 1941
Medium: Graphite and pastel on paper
Dimensions: Support: 556 × 756 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1985
Reference: T03941

Catalogue entry

Colin Self born 1941

T03941 ‘Muckspreading Again ...' (Looking West - Evening. Fields and Farm in a Spinney - from South of Walcott near Happisburgh - towards Ridlington, Norfolk), 25 September 1983 1983

Charcoal, pastel and chalk on wove paper 556 x 756 (21 7/8 x 29 3/4)
Inscribed on back ‘(Riddlington Church Tower left)' along left edge and ‘Colin Self 25th September 1983. "Muckspreading Again ...," | (Looking west - evening. Fields & farm in a spinney - from south of Walcott near Happisburgh - towards Riddlington Norfolk England)' along bottom edge
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1985
Exh: The Hard-Won Image, Tate Gallery, July-Sept. 1984 (120); Landscape: Fact & Feeling, Plymouth Arts Centre, April-May 1985 (no cat., repr. on exhibition poster)
Lit: Richard Morphet, The Hard-Won Image, exh. broadsheet, Tate Gallery, 1984 ([2] repr.)

See entry for T03976.

Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.270

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