- Title:
- August 12, 1988
- Object name(s):
- gouache
- Brief description:
- [previous notes]: abstract. In 1956, Heron saw an exhibition of paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists at the Tate Gallery in London, and was inspired to make the move into abstraction in his own art. He was impressed by the flatness and colour of the American paintings. This picture is small, and was painted in gouache more than 30 years later, but the impact of Heron's first sight of abstraction is still there, in the intensity of colour and the soft fluidity of the forms as they dissolve and bleed into each other.
- Collection:
- Mercer Art Gallery
- Comments:
- See file for newspaper cuttings from The Times, The Guardian, etc. with contextual information about Heron. This image illustrated in 'The People's Choice' by Sheila Asante, published by the Mercer Art Gallery, 2013. p.8 (and on the front cover).
- Content - description:
- [previous notes]: abstract. In 1956, Heron saw an exhibition of paintings by the American Abstract Expressionists at the Tate Gallery in London, and was inspired to make the move into abstraction in his own art. He was impressed by the flatness and colour of the American paintings. This picture is small, and was painted in gouache more than 30 years later, but the impact of Heron's first sight of abstraction is still there, in the intensity of colour and the soft fluidity of the forms as they dissolve and bleed into each other.
- Credit line:
- This collection is part of North Yorkshire Council Museums.
- Current reproduction location:
- 1418.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- images\fineart\low\1418.jpg
- Dimension:
- height x width
- Dimension measured part:
- sheet
- Dimension value:
- 31 x 39.8 cm [irregular]
- Dimension:
- height x width
- Dimension measured part:
- frame
- Dimension value:
- 51.8 x 59.9 cm
- Inscription content:
- [Waddington Galleries dealer's label with title and medium]
- Inscription method:
- label
- Inscription position:
- top centre, verso of frame
- Inscription content:
- [John Jones framer's label]
- Inscription method:
- label
- Inscription position:
- bottom centre, verso of frame
- Number of objects:
- 1
- Object component name:
- material
- Object component name:
- support
- Object name:
- gouache
- Object number:
- HARAG : 1418
- Object production person:
- Heron, Patrick
- Use begin date:
- 21.7.2007
- Use end date:
- 30.9.2007
- Use title:
- Night and Day
- Use title:
- Into Abstraction
- Use title:
- The People's Choice
- Use venue:
- The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c8511bde-bff6-3b82-bdad-203ea1c7a5a8
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c8511bde-bff6-3b82-bdad-203ea1c7a5a8, Mercer Art Gallery, CC BY
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