signed and dated ’52’ (lower right); signed again, inscribed and dated on the reverse
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Storm at St. Ives, 1952
Exhibition History:
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Taking Flight – St Ives in the 1950s, 26 June – 3 October 2015;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, Shifting Ground, 11 November 2016 – 26 February 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, In Their Own Words: Artists’ Voices from The Ingram Collection, 20 May – 30 July 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, The St Ives School, 6 April – 23 June 2019;
Bristol, RWA, St Ives: Movements in Art and Life, 14 March – 19 September 2020
Between 1945 and 1956 Heron visited Cornwall regularly with his wife Delia and small children. He painted a number of works of the view from the cottage they rented at 3 St Andrew’s Street, which overlooked the harbour and sea wall. The full force of a storm would be experienced with waves crashing over the house which was sometimes flooded.
