From:Williamson Art Gallery and Museum

Name/TitleHaresfoot Park, Hertfordshire

About this objectAbstract watercolour scene with trees.

Steer's watercolours were mostly produced in the second half of his career. The successful ones he referred to as 'flukes'. In the case of this particular sheet, the poise of Chinese calligraphy is balanced with an expressive sensuality of the brush strokes that more usually decorate pottery rather than mark paper. In this drawing he chose to paint a large tree weighed down by its foliage in high summer. The calm of summer heat is shown in the sky by his use of blank paper to form the clouds.

Haresfoot Park, a house near Berkhamsted to the north west of London in Hertfordshire, was the home of Geoffrey Blackwell, Steer's patron with whom he often stayed.

MakerSteer, Philip Wilson

Maker Roledraughtsman & painter

Date Made1917

Period20th century

Medium and Materialsmedium: watercolour
support: paper

Place MadeHertfordshire, England

Style and IconographyEnglish landscape

Style and IconographyLandscape

Style and IconographyImpressionist

Techniquewatercolour on paper

Measurementspainting: height: 25.5cm
painting: width: 36cm
mount: height: 38cm
mount: width: 50.5cm

Subject and Association KeywordsImpressionism

Credit LinePurchased from the artist's studio sale with the aid of the NACF and the Dr Stansfield Bequest, 1942

Object Typewatercolour

Object numberBIKGM.2661

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