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Description: | Oil on canvas. When this work was included in the exhibition ‘Mr. & Mrs. Adrian Stokes: Dutch Life and Landscape Pictures’ at the Fine Art Society in February 1900, Wilfred Meynell’s review in ‘The Art Journal’ described it as ‘Stokes’s most important Dutch landscape’. Meynell went on to comment:
‘‘Moonrise on the Dunes’ [is] a work in which the artist’s science is joined to great sweetness and poetry of feeling in place of the brisk temper and high daylight of the majority of his landscapes. The subtle drawing of the pine-trees, the exquisite peacefulness with which the distant sand-hills are painted - it is a peacefulness of the very execution - and the slight and restrained variety of a large sky, are all so many delicacies, boldly withstood by the strong drawing and colour of the cattle, with their splendid and arbitrary patches.’ | Subjects: | moon tree grass dune landscape C19th cow | Temporal: | 1899 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Adrian Scott Stokes | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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