STEER, O.M., PHILIP WILSON(1860 - 1942)
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Philip Wilson Steer was a landscape, coastal, portrait and genre painter. Steer studied at the Gloucester School of Art, Ecole des Beaux Arts and Julians in Paris, (1882). His Impressionist pictures of the 1880's and 1890's are considered amongst his best. After 1900 he turned increasingly to landscape painting. He rarely travelled abroad, preferring to make annual sketching tours of various parts of England. Although Impressionist in his technique, his work of this period can be seem as a continuation of the English landscape tradition of Constable and Turner. From 1895, Steer taught at the Slade School of Art. Four of Steer’s paintings were purchased by the Chantrey Bequest. PROVENANCE Sir Augustus Daniel The Hon John Freemantle and thence by descent EXHIBITED London, New English Art Club, April 1903, no 56 Manchester, 1910 London, Goupil Gallery, 1921 Birkenhead, festival of Britain, Williamson Art Gallery, Wilson Steer Exhibition, July 1951, no 23. London Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery and Tour, Philip Wilson Steer, Nov. - Dec 1960, no 46 ( shown in London only ). LITERATURE Arts Journal, 1906The Studio, C, July-Dec., 1930, p.257 ( illustrated )R Ironside ( Intro.). Wilson Steer, London 1943, pl. 37 D S MacColl, Life Work and setting of Philip Wilson Steer, London 1945, p204 B Laughton, Philip Wilson Steer, Oxford, 1971, p.142 EXHIBITIONS AGNEWS BEAUX ARTS GALLERY BARBIZON HOUSE CARFAX & CO FINE ARTS SOCIETY GLASGOW INSTITUTE GOUPIL & FILS LIVERPOOL, WALKER ART GALLERY MANCHESTER CITY ART GALLERY NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB ROYAL ACADEMY ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS REDFERN GALLERY ROYAL HIBERNIAN GALLERY ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY |
