Harold Harvey
Leading the Donkey to Water
Harvey, Harold – Leading the Donkey to Water
£16,500
Artwork Size: 15 x 18" (38 x 46cm)
Artwork Size with Frame: 24 x 27" (61 x 69cm)
Size: Small
Type/Medium: Oil on canvas
Harold Harvey was born on 20 May 1874 in North Parade, Penzance, Cornwall, the eldest of eight children. His father was a bank clerk. Harvey trained in painting at the Penzance Art School under Norman Garstin, and attended the Academie Julian in Paris between 1894 and 1896.
Before the First World War (1914-18) his style was impressionistic and his works mostly depicted scenes of the local fishing and agricultural communities, such as ‘In the Whiting Ground’ (c1900, now in Penlee House at Penzance). His work matured from about 1905 with brighter colours, and simpler compositions. He exhibited at the Newlyn Gallery and major provincial galleries, and had his first London show in 1913. From 1914 he created a long series of interior views, often set in his own home, and featuring his wife, friends and local people. These scenes are often painted in a crisper style than previously, and several include small still-lives of tableware. He was exempted from military service, presumably for reasons of health.
In the 1920s he achieved the full development of his ability and command of different subjects. Using a clearly-defined style of depiction he continued the series of interior views (eg ‘The Critics’ (1922) now at Birmingham), but he also created many notable outdoor scenes (eg ‘Girl on a Cliff’ (1926, now at Penleee House in Penzance) with either a landscape or seaside setting. He also began painting works with a religious theme. He achieved public recognition, and was selected to take part in the Venice Biennale of 1924. During the 1920s he ran a school of painting with his friend Ernest Procter (1886 – 1935).
Harvey’s last decade displayed all the remarkable abilities he had developed, and the wide range of his subject matter which included interiors, portraits, landscapes, religious themes, and the industrial landscape of Cornwall. In 1938 he featured in an article in Picture Post about the artistic colony at Newlyn. He continued painting up to his death on 19 May 1941.
He married Gertrude Bodinnar on 19 April 1911 at St Peter’s church, Newlyn, and they moved to Maen Cottage, high on Chywoone Hill overlooking Newlyn and Penzance. Gertrude herself became a painter, and took an active part in applied arts, particularly concerning fabrics. They had no children.
Exhibited at:- Abbey Gallery x 1
Beaux Art Gallery x 1
Grosvenor Gallery x 7
Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts x 5
Goupil Gallery x 5
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool x 22
Leicester Art Gallery x 92
Manchester City Art Gallery x 2
Royal Academy x 55
Royal Society of British Artists x 1
Royal Cambrian Academy x 6
Royal Hibernian Academy x 15
Royal Institute of Oil Painters x 5
Royal Scottish Academy x 2
His works have been auctioned throughout the UK at all major salerooms fetching prices of over £120 000
Further reading
An extended description of Harvey’s life can be found in the only monograph published about him, ‘Harold Harvey, Painter of Cornwall’, by Kenneth McConkey, Peter Risdon and Pauline Sheppard, published in 2001 by Sansom & Co Ltd, 81g Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3EA. ISBN 1 900178 53 2. The book contains well over 100 illustrations, mostly in colour.
Signed Harold Harvey bottom right
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