The Cloud (Hacker)
| The Cloud | |
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| Artist | Arthur Hacker |
| Year | 1901 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, nude art |
| Dimensions | 127.7 cm × 130 cm (50.3 in × 51 in) |
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The Cloud is a 1901 oil painting by the British artist Arthur Hacker.[1] It depicts a young nude woman reclining amongst clouds, with the presence of less well prominent figures also shown less prominently.[2] It is Symbolist in style. The picture was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1901 held at Burlington House in London, where it was accompanied by lines from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.[3] [4] Today it is in the collection of Cartwright Hall in Bradford, having been purchased in 1902.[5]
References
- ↑ Priestley p.126
- ↑ Smith p.112
- ↑ https://chronicle250.com/1901#catalogue=arthur+hacker
- ↑ O'Neill & Howe p.568
- ↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cloud-23313
Bibliography
- Priestley, John Boynton The Edwardians. Spehre Books, 1970.
- O'Neill, Michael & Howe, Tony (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Smith, Elise Lawton. Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.