1888, Philip Wilson Steer, The Bridge -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: Philip Wilson Steer received his main artistic training in France. Inspired by the impressionist painters, he was drawn to seaside locations such as Walberswick in Suffolk. This view was exhibited at alternative avant-garde venues the Grosvenor Gallery, in London and Les XX in Brussels. Even so, the lack of detail, atmospheric lighting and undefined subject were strongly attacked by traditional art critics as 'either a deliberate daub or so much mere midsummer madness'. Steer considered giving up painting but co-founded the New English Art Club and became a leader of British impressionism.
1888, Philip Wilson Steer, The Bridge -- Tate Britain (London)
From the museum label: Philip Wilson Steer received his main artistic training in France. Inspired by the impressionist painters, he was drawn to seaside locations such as Walberswick in Suffolk. This view was exhibited at alternative avant-garde venues the Grosvenor Gallery, in London and Les XX in Brussels. Even so, the lack of detail, atmospheric lighting and undefined subject were strongly attacked by traditional art critics as 'either a deliberate daub or so much mere midsummer madness'. Steer considered giving up painting but co-founded the New English Art Club and became a leader of British impressionism.