The Reservoir

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Thomas Balston was not only a prolific collector and writer but also a painter. He studied painting for a short period in the 1930s with Mark Gertler, from whom he acquired several paintings. This landscape is painted in his typical, somewhat idealised and atmospheric style.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Oxford

Title

The Reservoir

Date

1938

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 40.5 x W 51 cm

Accession number

WA1959.43.1

Acquisition method

Presented by A. H. Smith, Warden of New College, 1959

Work type

Painting

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