Ethelbert White

Under the Hills

1923

Not on display

Artist: Ethelbert White 1891–1972
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 406 × 368 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924
Reference: N03848

Catalogue entry

N03848 UNDER THE HILLS 1923

Inscr. ‘Ethelbert White’ b.l.
Watercolour on buff paper, 18×20 (45·5×51).
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1924.
Coll: Purchased from the St George's Gallery by Sir Edward Marsh, who presented it to the C.A.S.
Exh: St George's Gallery, September 1923 (no catalogue traced).

The artist wrote (9 August 1956) that this watercolour was painted in late September 1923, and is of Coldkitchen Farm, situated on the southern slope of the North Downs between Guildford and Dorking.

A picture of the same title, probably an oil painting, was exhibited at the London Group, April–May 1932 (109).

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