The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
The Wood Gatherers
1869
(British, 1842–1924)
Sheet: 40.5 x 56.3 cm (15 15/16 x 22 3/16 in.)
Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz 2013.239
Location: not on view
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In addition to his artistic career, John William North championed social justice for the agricultural laboring class in England, campaigning for decent rural sanitation and social housing.Description
John William North’s watercolors of the rural landscape of Somerset unite the seemingly contradictory states of minutely rendered detail with atmospheric effects. Herbert Alexander, the artist’s biographer, described the artist’s interpretation of nature as similar to that of a poet, suggesting rather than describing: "In watercolor and oil an effect of intricate detail is found on examination to be quite illusive—multitudinous form is conjured by finding and losing it in endless hide-and-seek till the eye accepts infinity."- ?-?William Graham, M.P., Glasgow1886(sale, Christie's, London, April 2, 1886, no. 29)1973(sale, Christie's, London, October 1, 1973, no. 59)1978(Shepherd Gallery, New York)?-2013Helen and Albert Borowitz, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH2013-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. Referenced: pp. 116-117, 147, no. 39; Reproduced: p. 117
- British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).
- {{cite web|title=The Wood Gatherers|url=false|author=John William North|year=1869|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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