Harold Harvey
The Blue Gown, 1917
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 51 x 41 cm.; 20 x 16 in.
Framed: 72 x 62 cm.; 28¼x 24½ in.
Framed: 72 x 62 cm.; 28¼x 24½ in.
Signed and dated lower left: 'Harold Harvey .17'
WB3393
Copyright The Artist
This is a portrait of the artist’s wife, Gertrude, dressing by the window of their bedroom at Maen Cottage, Newlyn.
This is a portrait of the artist’s wife, Gertrude, dressing by the window of their bedroom at Maen Cottage, Newlyn.
Provenance
Pyms Gallery, LondonPrivate Collection
Exhibitions
London, Royal Academy, 1917, no. 683.London, Pyms Gallery, Autumn Anthology, 1983, no. 22.
London, The Barbican Art Gallery, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, 11 July - 1 September 1985, no. 75.
Literature
C. Fox & F. Greenacre, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, London, 1985, pp. 39, 130, illustrated, no. 75.K. McConkey, Edwardian Portraits: Images of an Age of Opulence, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 226-7, no. 81, illustrated.
T. Cross, The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930, Tiverton, 1994, p. 169, illustrated.
K. McConkey, P. Risdon & P. Sheppard, Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall, Bristol, 2001, pp. 23-5, 146-7, illustrated fig. 12, p. 25, no. 234.
K. McConkey, P. Risdon & P. Sheppard, Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall, 2nd ed., Bristol, 2024, p. 128, no. 315.
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