signed and dated ‘John Minton 1945’ (lower left); further signed, inscribed with title and dated ‘Sept 45’ (on a label attached to the backboard)
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The Hop Pickers, 1945
Provenance:
with Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London
Exhibition History:
London, Business Design Centre, London Art Fair Museum Partner, Ten Years – A Century of Art, 18 – 22 January 2017;
Woking, The Lightbox, John Minton and the Romantic Tradition, 28 January 2017 – 9 March 2017;
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, John Minton: A Centenary, 1 July – 1 October 2017;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Land | Sea | Life: A British Art Collection, 20 October 2017 – 17 February 2018;
Sheffield, Museums Sheffield, Darkness into Light, 20 October 2018 – 13 January 2019;
Lymington, St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, The Seasons: Art of the Unfolding Year, 11 September 2020 – 9 January 2021
John Minton’s familiarity with Kent and scenes like this owed much to an older married woman whom he had first met at St John’s Wood Art School, where both were students in the mid-1930s. This was Edie Lamont, wife of the coal-merchant broker Marshall Lamont. In January 1945 the Lamonts moved from Hampstead to Marshalls at Chart Sutton, a house that sat within a three-acre garden and is within two minutes walk of a view over the Weald. We know from Edie Lamont’s diaries that John Minton made two to four visits to Marshalls every year, up until 1954, and that, whilst there, he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart, Forstall, Frittenden and Tenterden.
