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Arenig
Artist: INNES, James Dickson (1887-1914)
This vividly coloured view of Arenig isolates the mountain against a luminous sky. Innes discovered Arenig, near Bala, in 1910 and painted it repeatedly. As his friend Augustus John said, Arenig became "ever his spiritual home". Innes had travelled widely in the south of France and brought the bold colour and clear light of the Mediterranean to this painting of his native Wales. The simplicity of design, vivid flat colours and the concentration of this composition of about 1911 upon the mountain motif recalls Japanese prints such as Hokusai's colour woodcuts of Mount Fuji.
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 202
Creation/Production
INNES, James Dickson
Role: Creation
Date: 1911 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1954
Given by Sir Edward Marsh
Measurements
Height: 22.9cm
Width: 33cm
h(cm) frame:33.0
w(cm) frame:42.2
d(cm) frame:4.9
Techniques
oil on panel
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
panel
Location
In store
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