Through The Snowy Coverts-Blackgame (1926)
Archibald Thorburn1926 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1935)
Specifications
- Year
- 1926
- Nationality / school
- Scottish
- Lifespan
- 1860–1935
About the artwork
This page presents "Through The Snowy Coverts-Blackgame" (1926), created by Archibald Thorburn. Plants & Animals in brief: Naturalists and artists often worked together, especially on voyages and in published surveys of flora and fauna. Images of plants and animals run from medieval herbals and bestiaries to the scientific illustration of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. About the period around 1926: Posters, magazines, and illustrated books were major ways for the public to meet new art and design. Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s. The catalogue places it in Plants & Animals. The format is landscape.
"Through The Snowy Coverts-Blackgame" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Flora and fauna subjects make an interior feel softer and more alive, adding a natural rhythm that works well in both traditional and contemporary spaces. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
Scottish, 1860–1935
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