Watercolours and Drawings from the Loftus Collection
Private View 6-9pm Tuesday 11th July 2017
The Exhibition continues through Thursday 31st August
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Provenance
Mrs Harry Becker to Nico Loftus, to his wife Prue Loftus, and by descent.
All the works in this exhibition are stamped verso ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’
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NOTE: Nothing will be sold until the Exhibition opens at 6pm on Tuesday 11th July.
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Harry Beckers’s move from London to Wenhaston in 1913 marked the definitive turning point in his career. No longer would East Suffolk just be for summer painting; he had decided to commit himself to recording the entire, hard, rural round; up at dawn to be out with the farm workers as they began their seasonal labours, and with them throughout their day.
The realist subject matter into which he had been schooled as a 14 year old pupil of the peasant painter Verlat at Antwerp’s Royal Academy and the painterly skills he had mastered as a 19 year old pupil of Carolus Duran in Paris in 1884 finally, after many frustrations and struggles, found mature expression during the last 15 years of his life with his inimitable drawn and painted record of the final days of an ancient rural, farming system and a countryside he deeply loved.
Adrian Bell’s novel ‘Corduroy’ (1930) is a wonderful accompaniment to Becker’s work.
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DRAWINGS
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1. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Hedge and figures. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 7.5x11.25 inches.
2. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Cart horses against the sun. Pencil and red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 9.25x10 inches. ●
3. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Horses and man, shady lane. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 7x8.75 inches. ●
4. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: work horses. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 8x10.5 inches. ●
5. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Study of three scythers. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ Ill: p.91, ‘Becker’, David Thompson, 2002. 15x18 inches. ●
6. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Horses waiting in a lane. Pencil. 7x8.75 inches. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’
7. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: farm labourer. Red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 14x7 inches. ●
8. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Horse team ploughing: studies. Charcoal. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 10x12.5 inches. ●
9. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Head of a Man. Charcoal. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 15x8 inches. ●
10. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: Team waiting. Black chalk. 6.25x10 inches Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ ●
11. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: trees and farm buildings. Red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 10.5x13 inches. ●
12. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Suffolk lane. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 3.5x6.25 inches. ●
13. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: children at a fence. Pencil and red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 15x22 inches. ●
14. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Figures in the field. Charcoal. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 7x9 inches. ●
15. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Labourers building a straw stack. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 11x15 inches.
16. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Suffolk lane. Pencil. Verso: Cattle grazing lane’s bank. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 3.5x6.25 inches. ●
17. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: Horses and cattle feeding. Red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 7.5x11 inches.
18. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: Straw stacks and farm buildings. Lithographic crayon. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 15x23 inches. ●
19. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: gateway. (mount for both sides) Red chalk. Verso: gateway. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 7.25x11 inches ●
20. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field studies for a composition. Pencil. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 14.5x21.5 inches. ●
21. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field study: Cattle grazing. Red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 8.5x14.75 inches. ●
WATERCOLOURS.
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22. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Farm Buildings’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Also inscribed: ‘Harry Becker’s Work (signed) P Loftus’. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 10x12.5 inches. ●
23. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Hay stack’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 11x15.25 inches. ●
24. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Stormy landscape’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso and ‘By Harry Becker. From his Studio (signed) G & J Becker’. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 9.75x12.5 inches. ●
25. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Blue Skies’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 9.5x12 inches. ●
26. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Summer fields in lush meadow’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 5x7 inches. ●
27. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Cornfield’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. 6.25x8.5 inches. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ ●
28. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Field, hedge and sky. Watercolour. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 6.5x8.75 inches. ●
29. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Man hoeing’. Watercolour Inscribed verso. Verso: Field study: labourers. Red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 11.25x10.5 inches. ●
30. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Hay stack and trees’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Also inscribed ‘Harry Becker’s work (signed) P Loftus’. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 9.75x12.25 inches.
31. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Blyth Valley II’ Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 11x15.5 inches.
32. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Distant landscape. Watercolour. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 5.5x10 inches.
33. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Rickyard’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 8x11.5 inches.
34. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Tree clumps’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Verso: Lane across fields. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 7.75x11.25 inches.
35. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Elm hedge, ‘Summer meadow’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 6.25x8 inches. ●
36. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Summer trees’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 6.5x8.5 inches.
37. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Walberswick. Pencil and watercolour. Inscribed verso: ‘Harry Becker / from his studio / (signed) G & J Becker’. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 15.75x22.5 inches. ●
38. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Loading Hay’. Pencil and watercolour. Inscribed verso. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 8x13.25 inches.
39. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Blyth Valley I’ Watercolour. Inscribed verso. Verso: Farmworkers under a tree. Red chalk. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 15x22 inches. ●
40. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Heat’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso. 11x15.5 inches. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ ●
41. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) ‘Corn Field’. Watercolour. Inscribed verso and ‘Eton Exhibition’. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 11.25x15.5 inches.
42. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Cattle grazing. Pencil and watercolour. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 13.25x18.75 inches. ●
43. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Portait of a girl. Watercolour. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 19.5x12.25 inches. ●
44. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Study of the artist’s wife? Pencil and watercolour. 13.9.25 inches. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ ●
45. Harry BECKER (1865-1928) Portrait of a boy. Watercolour. Stamped verso: ‘Harry Becker / Loftus Coll.’ 19.5x12.25 inches. ●
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PRINTS
In conjunction with this exhibition we will be illustrating impressions
of each of the 44 Becker prints remaining in the Loftus Collection.