Norwegian Landscape

Location

Country: Norway
City: Oslo
Place: British Embassy

Harold Gilman was born in Rode, Somerset, and attended the Slade School of Art, London from 1897-1901. In 1907 he met the artists W.R. Sickert and Spencer Gore, and became one of the founders of Sickert’s Fitzroy Street Group. This became the Camden Town Group in 1911, which included Sickert, Gore, Lucien Pissarro and Gilman. Gilman visited Scandinavia several times and was influenced by the light. In 1914 Gilman and Charles Ginner issued a manifesto, Neo-Realism, calling artists to return to painting from nature. An exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in London that year included several Norwegian landscapes by Gilman. In 1919 Gilman caught flu, after having nursed Ginner - both artists caught pneumonia and Gilman died aged 43.

Places

Norway

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, Camden Town Group, London Group, tree, hill, pond

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Harold John Wilde Gilman (1876 - 1919)

Title

Norwegian Landscape

Date

1913

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 51.00 cm, width: 61.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Leicester Galleries, June 1960

Inscription

br: H.Gilman verso, top stretcher bar: H.Gilman -/- SCANDINAVIAN LANDSCAPE and again beneath bown tape (barely visible): Harold Gilman

Provenance

Collection of Mrs Ackroyd; from whom purchased by the Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in May 1960, as ‘Landscape’

GAC number

5218