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Title:
St. Ives (snow, night) Yorkshire
Object name(s):
c-type photograph
Brief description:
Chasing the Gloaming (2011), commissioned by The Mercer Art Gallery. A collection of photographs made in response to the lifetime’s work of Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw. The work responds to Grimshawarly still life paintings through to his later work of moonlit landscapes of cities, woodlands & coastlines. [see artist's website http://www.lizadracup.co.uk/profile.htm, accessed 27.7.2015]
Collection:
Mercer Art Gallery
Comments:
In 2011 Liza Dracup was commissioned by the Mercer to create new work inspired by the paintings of Leeds City Streets and Whitby by moonlight by Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893). [see 'A Woman's Work' by Jane Sellars, published by The Mercer Art Gallery, 2015. p.87.
Content - description:
Chasing the Gloaming (2011), commissioned by The Mercer Art Gallery. A collection of photographs made in response to the lifetime’s work of Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw. The work responds to Grimshawarly still life paintings through to his later work of moonlit landscapes of cities, woodlands & coastlines. [see artist's website http://www.lizadracup.co.uk/profile.htm, accessed 27.7.2015]
Credit line:
This collection is part of North Yorkshire Council Museums.
Dimension:
height x width
Dimension measured part:
image
Dimension value:
74.2 x 99.8 cm [sight]
Dimension:
height x width
Dimension measured part:
sheet
Dimension value:
74.2 x 99.8 cm [sight]
Dimension:
height x width
Dimension measured part:
frame
Dimension value:
80.4 x 106 cm
Inscription content:
St. Ives Snow (night) Yorkshire / C-type print / 2010
Inscription method:
printed label
Inscription position:
top centre, verso
Inscription content:
Liza Dracup: Chasing the Gloaming / Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate / 16 April 2011 - 4 September 2011 / Guildhall Art Gallery, London / 19 September 2011 - 15 January 2012
Inscription method:
printed label
Inscription position:
top centre, verso
Inscription content:
78
Inscription method:
printed label
Inscription position:
upper centre, verso
Inscription content:
St. Ives Snow (night) Yorkshire / C-type print / 2010 [printed] to Mercer Art Gallery / SOLD [ms. on label]
Inscription method:
exhibition label with printed text and ms.
Inscription position:
centre verso, attached with tape
Inscription content:
LONDON 2 [2 circled] DRACUP
Inscription method:
paper label with ms. biro
Inscription position:
stuck to exhibition label, centre verso
Inscription content:
Rae Art Services
Inscription method:
framers' label
Inscription position:
bottom centre, verso
Number of objects:
1
Object component name:
material
Object name:
c-type photograph
Object number:
HARAG : 2532
Object production date:
2010
Object production person:
Dracup, Liza
Person's gender:
female
Use begin date:
2011
Use title:
Liza Dracup: Chasing the Gloaming
Use venue:
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/403343bc-034d-3d1b-b8d3-aeffc1954c06

Use licence for this record: CC BY

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/403343bc-034d-3d1b-b8d3-aeffc1954c06, Mercer Art Gallery, CC BY

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