John Wells
Vista, 1955
oil on board
41 x 61 cm; 16 1/8 x 24 1/8 in
JC250
© The Estate of John Wells. All rights reserved, DACS 2024
Provenance
Anonymous Sale via J&J RawlinAcquired directly from the artist by JP Hodin, and thence by descent to the previous owner.
Exhibitions
Tate St Ives, John Wells: The Fragile Cell 2 May- 1 Nov 1998, no. 38Birmingham, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Cornwall as Crucible: Modernity and Internationalism in Mid-Century Britain, February - May 2020.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, Coast, Country, City, August - November 2021.
Netherlands, Museum Belvedere, Living the landscape – Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and the artists of St. Ives 1939-1975, May - September 2022.
Bristol, Arnolfini, Here Today, Here Tomorrow, 23 November 2024 - 2 February 2025.
Literature
JP Hodin 'The 1958 Art Critics' Prize', The Studio, June 1959, ill.p 191 and also on the coverTom Cross, Painting the Warmth of the Sun: St Ives Artists 1939-1975, Tiverton, 1995 (revised edition), p.68
Exhibition Catalogue, Michael Bird / Feico Hoekstra, Living the Landscape, pg 32 - 33, illustrated.
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