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Recent Acquisitions Autumn at Rountree Tryon Gallery
October 3, 2024 @ 10:00 am - October 26, 2024 @ 5:00 pm UTC+0
3 – 26 OCTOBER 2024
Monday – closed (by appointment only)
Tuesday – Friday, 10am-5pm
Saturday – 11am – 4pm during exhibitions (otherwise by appointment only)
This exhibition combines recently acquired works from across the gallery’s areas of specialism.
Featured in the equine section are three paintings by Sir Alfred James Munnings (1878-1959), including a rare war work depicting two draught horses during the artist’s time with the Canadian Forestry Corps in 1918. Also included is a watercolour of the start of the Hunt Cup at Ascot by
Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards (1878-1966) and a large chalk racing scene based on Aintree by Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin (1870-1935).
Topographical subjects include a nineteenth century watercolour of the Citadel of Saladin on the Mokattam Hills in Cairo by George Price Boyce (1826-1897), a view of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice by Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971) and a painting of Kensington Palace by Claude Muncaster (1903-1974).
Also featured are naval engagements by Peter Monamy (1681-1749) and Dominic Serres (1722-1793) and two 1930s paintings of geese by Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989).
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