Arenig, North Wales (1911-12)

James Dickson Innes

oil on panel

Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff

Photo credit: National Museum Wales

Classification:

Painting

Materials:

Oil, Panel

Dimensions:

23 x 33 cm

Accession Number:

NMW A 202

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1954

Scheme:

Sir Edward Marsh Bequest (1953)

Ownership history:

?Sculptures by Mr Eric Gill and Landscapes by Mr J. D. Innes, Chenil Gallery, London 1911; bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 1954

Relationship:

Charles Chenil & Co. Ltd (Chenil Gallery), London Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff Edward 'Eddie' Howard Marsh

Subject:

Mountain, Landscape

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.

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