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Haystacks near Long Melford, Suffolk signed 'Doggett' (lower right); titled and dated August 1938 to the stretcher oil on canvas (Dimensions: 41 x 51cm)

(41 x 51cm)

Footnote: Provenance By descent within the family of the artist Part of the London Group, Ruth Doggett is remembered for her controlled and harmonious use of colour. She attended The Cambridge School of Arts and Crafts between 1904 and 1909 before moving in 1911. Ruth enrolled as a student at the Westminster School of Art and was taught by Walter Sickert. From around 1913, she was a member of the newly formed London Group and throughout 1914-1915 was taught by Harold Gilman. Through her exploration of colour and texture, the influence of both Sickert and Gilman can be noted in Doggett’s work. After having exhibited alongside members of the London Group for several years and receiving wide critical acclaim, Doggett exhibited as a solo artist in 1934, under the title August in England . In the preface to the exhibition catalogue, Charles Ginner comments on her “beautiful sense of colour”, and notes “Miss Doggett approaches landscape with poetical feeling and intense love of nature”. In the years prior to the Second World War, Doggett continued to exhibit and continued to earn widespread praise. In 1939 she returned to Cambridge, where she lived with her parents at 1, Long Road. The present work is one of a number of views Ruth Doggett painted of Long Melford, Suffolk, between 1934 and 1938.

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