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St Ives

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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A sketch showing waves breaking against the shore, probably on Porthmeor Beach, St Ives. In this painting the waves are breaking in the shallows and on to the beach. The sky and the beach are indicated by thin washes of colour, which serve to show that it is the waves that are the purpose of the sketch. They are arranged in several lines as they approach the shore, dark on the underside and vivid white where they break on the crest and form foam, lifting where they are picked up by the wind. St Ives was an important town for artists from the 1890s to the present day. Everett rented a studio at Porthmeor Beach during 1935 and he observed that although he had an ideal place to work, the weather was very cold and with east and north-easterly winds there were no seas.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

St Ives

Date

1935

Medium

oil on paper

Measurements

H 17.9 x W 35.6 cm

Accession number

BHC0223

Work type

Painting

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