Landscape, Somerset

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Harold Gilman (1876-1919)
Landscape, Somerset
signed 'Gilman' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 30¼ in. (50.8 x 76.8 cm.)
Painted in 1917

Provenance

Mrs. Sylvia Gilman, the artist's wife.

Literature

J. Wood Palmer, Harold Gilman, catalogue for the exhibition organised by the Arts Council, 1954-55, p. 5.

Exhibited

London, London Group Retrospective 1914-1928, June 1928, no. 67, as Landscape, Somerset.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Paintings by Harold Gilman, September 1934, no. 23, as Evening, Somerset.
London, Lefevre Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Harold Gilman, July 1948, no. 28.
London, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Tate Gallery, Harold Gilman 1876-1919, 1954-5, no. 39.
London, Reid Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by Harold Gilman, April 1964, no. 33, as Somerset.
London, William Ware Gallery, The Camden Town Group and Painting 1900-1930s, 1967, no. 45.
Plymouth, Art Gallery, Camden Town Group, May 1974, no. 11.
Stoke-on-Trent, Arts Council, City Museum and Art Gallery, Harold Gilman, October-November 1981, no. 86: this exhibition travelled to York, City Art Gallery, November 1981-January 1982; Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, January-February 1982; and London, Royal Academy, February-April 1982.

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Lot Essay

Gilman and Sylvia Hardy married during the summer of 1917. Mrs. Gilman's dating of the present work for the 1954 retrospective exhibition would indicate that it had been painted during their honeymoon in Wells. Two drawings with Somerset titles exist from this period: Landscape near Wells (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and Somerset Landscape (Art Gallery of South Australia), and there is another known oil painting Branches in Leaf, Somerset, sold in these Rooms on 17 June 1977, lot 68 (private collection) (see A. Causey, Harold Gilman, catalogue for the 1981 exhibition, p. 84).

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