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Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow

Hampstead Heath, Looking Toward Harrow

c. 1821
(British, 1776–1837)
England, 19th century
oil on paper, mounted on canvas
Framed: 39 x 44.5 x 5 cm (15 3/8 x 17 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 25.9 x 31.3 cm (10 3/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1027
Location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts

Description

Constable was interested in the changing light effects of weather and often worked outdoors, making swift oil sketches on paper. He focused on painting the countryside of his native England, which he never left. He wrote to a fellow artist that he would “rather be a poor man [in England] than a rich man abroad.”
  • Isabel Constable, the artist's daughter; [1822-1888], London, United Kingdom
    1895
    Tooth and Sons (London, England), purchased by J. H. Wade, 1895.
    1895-1916
    Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
    1916-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Saisselin, Remy. "Art Is an Imitation of Nature." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LII, (1965): 41-42. Mentioned: p. 41-42; Reproduced: fig. 4
    Talbot, William S. "John Constable: Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIX (1974): 107. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 107, fig. 11
    Hoozee, Robert. L'opera completa di Constable. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1979. Reproduced: p. 383
    Reynolds, Graham. The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable. New Haven, CT: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1984.
    D'Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part Four; European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Reproduced: p. 53
    "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12. Mentioned: p. 3 www.jstor.org
  • British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
    Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
    Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
    Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin, OH (May 1963)
    Landscape. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 9-April 22, 1962).
    35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
    Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948).
    Exhibition of the Month: Atmospheric Depth in Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 31, 1947).
    The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
    The Cleveland Art Loan Exposition under the Auspices of the Cleveland School of Art. Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland, OH (November 25-December 17, 1913)
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