Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades: Artist sketching in a Harbour - on Art WW I

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Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades:
Artist sketching in a Harbour

Framed (ref: 5876)
Signed
Pen and ink, watercolour
7 x 6 in. (17.8 x 15.2 cm)

Tags: Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades ink pen and ink watercolour artists at work landscape Garden Museum



Provenance: The Artist's Son



Geoffrey Rhoadeswas a keen plantsman. a passion he shared  which Charles Mahoney, Edward Bawden, John Nash, and Evelyn Dunbar.  This group regularly swapped cuttings with each other and cultivated their favoured plants in their gardens and recorded them in paintings and drawings.  Illustrations were produced for a variety of projects including  Christmas cards  which the artists sent to each other, and books - Mahoney and Dunbar published Gardeners' Choice in 1937 and Nash English Garden Flowers,  published by Duckworth, London, in 1948.

Exhibited: Sanctuary, Artist-Gardeners, 1919-39, Garden Museum, London, 25th February – 5 April, 2020

Literature: Christopher Woodward, Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners, 1919–1939, published by Liss Llewellyn, 2020


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