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This particular landscape, by a former Director of the National Gallery, has gained a fitting home in the Bowes Museum collection, symbolising as it does the Moorland country to be found at the doors of the Museum, as well as the home of the artist at Appleby, Westmorland.
A Moorland Road by Sir Charles John Holmes, 1923
© The artist's estate
Details
- Category:
- Landscape
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas Dimensions: 47 x 77 cm
- Art Fund grant:
- £105 ( Total: £105)
- Acquired in:
- 1937
- Vendor:
- Colnaghi
It's decorative pattern formed by the stone walls and undulating road, together with its sense of solitude, as at the top of the world, must strike a responsive chord in every lover of the Pennine country.
Venue details
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 8NP
01833 690606
www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk
Entry details
Free entry with National Art Pass (standard entry charge is £9.00)
Open daily, 10am – 5pm
Closed 25 – 26 Dec and 1 Jan