- Artist
- Philip Wilson Steer 1860–1942
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 232 × 327 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by A.E. Anderson through the Art Fund 1923
- Reference
- N03715
Catalogue entry
N03715 ELM TREES 1922
Inscr. ‘P. W Steer 1922’ b.l.
Watercolour, 9 1/8×12 7/8 (23×32·75).
Presented by A. E. Anderson through the National Art-Collections Fund 1923.
Coll: Purchased by A. E. Anderson from the Goupil Gallery 1922.
Exh: Goupil Gallery Salon, Goupil Gallery, November–December 1922 (5); Tate Gallery, April–July 1929 (190); National Gallery, June–August 1943 (28).
In the summer of 1922 Steer worked at Shirehampton and Avonmouth near Bristol, where this may well have been painted.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II