Not on display
- Artist
- Robert Medley 1905–1994
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 629 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1960
- Reference
- T00331
Catalogue entry
T00331 A TREE STUDY 1959
Inscr. ‘Robert Medley’ b.r.
Canvas, 30×24 3/4 (76×63).
Purchased from the artist through the Leicester Galleries (Grant-in-Aid) 1960.
Exh: Leicester Galleries, February 1960 (8); Whitechapel Art Gallery, November–December 1963 (66).
Painted in August 1959 (letter from the artist, 16 March 1960). For a sketch see T00332.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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