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By a Quiet River

© The Estate of Clarence Tillenius. Image credit: Nature in Art

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Tillenius has spent his whole working life drawing and painting the wildlife of North America. He has spent years travelling with the Indian and Inuit people of the Canadian north. He lost his right arm in an accident in 1936, which did not mean the end of his artistic career … he learnt to paint with his left. He says ‘Art that is to endure must always derive its strength from nature; that is, the artist must have a profound understanding of, and a feeling for, the elemental sources of things, the rhythms of life that are not affected by passing fashions. In my paintings of animals and wilderness, I strive to convey what I feel about these things, to portray a wilderness world intelligible to any human being who is exhilarated by a mountain sunrise, who sees with pleasure a rabbit track across a snowy field, or who simply enjoys being outdoors.

Nature in Art

Gloucester

Title

By a Quiet River

Date

1986

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 89.2 x W 120.3 cm

Accession number

L1988.130

Acquisition method

on loan from Penny Morris

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

SignedClarence Tillenius 1986

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