{"product_id":"eleanor-hughes-ri-cow-with-horns-study-original-1920-graphite-drawing-kd-566","title":"Eleanor Hughes RI, Cow with Horns Study – 1920 graphite drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original 1920 graphite drawing – Eleanor Hughes RI, Cow with Horns Study.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fantastic sketch by Eleanor Hughes RI (1882–1959), who was a leading painter of the Newlyn School of artists. At Newlyn Hughes studied under the school's founder, Stanhope Forbes RA (1857–1947). She went on to become an important figure in the Lamorna colony of artists, residing nearby at Chyangweal, near St Buryan, with her husband, the artist Robert Morson Hughes (1873–1953). She was a close friend of Laura and Harold Knight, and Lamorna Birch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe delicacy with which she painted in watercolour, using graphite to delineate detail, and her considered awareness of colour and form, has led to comparisons with the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis drawing is one a collection that we have for sale that were produced by Hughes in East Sussex in 1920, depicting the area around Battle, north to Robertsbridge and Salehurst and east to Udimore. Robert Morson Hughes was born at nearby Withyham, so the area possibly had significance for the couple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEleanor Hughes uses the rural landscape as inspiration for her exploration of shape and colour; she is particularly known for her interest in the linear form of trees and the shapes created by farm buildings within the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvenance: from a sketchbook found at Chyangweal, the family home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54541779435849,"sku":"KD-566","price":48.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KD-566.jpg?v=1780569991","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/es-eu\/products\/eleanor-hughes-ri-cow-with-horns-study-original-1920-graphite-drawing-kd-566","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}