signed upper right, titled, dated and initialled (verso)
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Knowlton Church, 1941
Provenance:
with Albemarle Gallery, London;
with The Mayor Gallery, London;
with Osborne Samuel, 2011
Exhibition History:
London, Osborne Samuel, John Craxton: Works on Paper, Linocuts & Prints, 17 May – 11 June 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Dreams and Nightmares, 22 May – 15 July 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Where’s God Now?, 18 July – 27 September 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January 2017 – 9 March 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Cookham, The Stanley Spencer Gallery, Counterpoint: Stanley Spencer and his contemporaries, 28 March – 3 November 2019
John Craxton shared a love of ruins with his friend John Piper. Of his once-favourite Dorset site the artist wrote, “Knowlton Church could have been a set for a M.R. James ghost story – a ruin in the middle of a double prehistoric earthwork, the pagan temple and the Christian church each crumbling away back to earth. It was, for years, a magical place now alas sterilised and stripped of its ivy, its mystery gone.”
