Blythburgh, The Estuary
Maker
1866-1934
Title
Blythburgh, The Estuary
Date of Production
1892-93
Accession Number
LP.2022.XX.8
Credit
Private Collection. On long-term loan to The Courtauld Gallery, London
Location
On display
Label Text
When Roger Fry painted this view of the marshes in Blythburgh, East Suffolk, he was better known as a scholar of Italian Renaissance Painting. In the following years, he became one of the strongest advocates of modern French painting. With its rhythm of dark trees against a watery twilit landscape, the painting reflects Fry's interest at the time in the European movement known as Symbolism, in which mood and mystery are expressed throguh a flattening of shapes. He made the work for the New English Art Club, which was founded to promote modernism; however the jury, more interested in Impressionism, refused to show it.
Provenance
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