The Blue Gown, 1917

Object Description

Harold Harvey
The Blue Gown
Signed and dated lower left: ‘Harold Harvey .17’
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 51 x 41 cm.; 20 x 16 in.
Framed: 72 x 62 cm.; 28¼x 24½ in.

Object History

London, Royal Academy, 1917, no. 683.
London, Pyms Gallery, Autumn Anthology, 1983, no. 22.
London, The Barbican Art Gallery, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, 11 July – 1 September 1985, no. 75.

Object Literature

C. Fox & F. Greenacre, Painting in Newlyn 1880-1930, London, 1985, pp. 39, 130, illustrated, no. 75.
K. McConkey, Edwardian Portraits: Images of an Age of Opulence, Woodbridge, 1987, pp. 226-7, no. 81, illustrated.
T. Cross, The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880-1930, Tiverton, 1994, p. 169, illustrated.
K. McConkey, P. Risdon & P. Sheppard, Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall, Bristol, 2001, pp. 23-5, 146-7, illustrated fig. 12, p. 25, no. 234.
K. McConkey, P. Risdon & P. Sheppard, Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall, 2nd ed., Bristol, 2024, p. 128, no. 315.

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