Harness (1944)

Tristram 'Birdie' Paul Hillier

tempera on canvas

Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Tempera, Canvas

Physical Object Description:

Inscribed: Tristram Hillier, Bayford, Wincanton’ on an envelope in the centre. Painting of a harness dominating the work. It is sitting on a chest of draw in front of a red brick wall outside, in the background are trees, which have lost their leaves

Dimensions:

60.3 x 81.3 cm

Accession Number:

N05567

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1944

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Purchased from Arthur Tooth & Sons by Edward Marsh (1872-1953); by whom gifted to the Contemporary Art Society, 1944; presented to the Tate Gallery, 1944

Relationship:

Arthur Tooth & Sons, London Tate, London, Liverpool and St Ives Edward 'Eddie' Howard Marsh

Subject:

Landscape, Agriculture

Harenss (1944) was painted after Hillier had bee invalided out of the Royal Navy at Bayford, Wincanton in Somerset. In his autobiography Leda and the Swan (1954) he wrote: " The remaining months of the war I spent in a furnished cottage in Somerset. Here after the three years in which it had been impossible for me to paint, I worked, I think during every hour of daylight." A companion picture, The Bridle (1943), is in the National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa (4768).

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