Piebald Driving

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

20687

Title

Piebald Driving

Description

The work is painted in gouache on linen. The lively scene shows a lady sitting on a trap in the foreground, driving a piebald horse. The background landscape is loosely sketched to suggest a bright, sunlit afternoon.

Artist / maker

Crawhall, Joseph

Size

36.2 x 35.0cm

Type

Gouache on linen

Location

City Art Centre

Accession number

CAC2002/5

From 1898 the artist was living at Beacon Banks, Hunsthwaite, Yorkshire for a period. It is likely that this is his sister driving the trap. Crawhall used unconventional methods often working purely from visual memory. The piebald horse is finely executed with a vivid sense of movement. Crawhall is generally recognised as one of the great draughtsmen of his age, using a free and rapid technique in order to capture the atmosphere of a scene through a few deft pen and brush marks. Most of his paintings include animals, particularly horses, and his best work is highly sensitive to the character of his subject. This work is unusually painted on Holland linen, which the artist started using in 1893, on finding himself without paper when staying with his sister in Bristol; He borrowed some sewing linen as an alternative medium, which quickly became his preferred painting surface from then on.

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