Chris Beetles Gallery

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Rye

Albert Goodwin (1845-1932)

Price

£9,500

Signed

Signed and inscribed with title

Medium

Watercolour

Dimensions

9 x 12 ¾ inches

Literature

Hammond Smith, 'Albert Goodwin, RWS (1845-1932)', Old Watercolour Society's Club, Volume LIV, 1979, Page 20;
Albert Goodwin RWS, 1845-1932, Chris Beetles Ltd 1986, Limited Edition of 1000, Plate 131

Exhibited

'Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932', Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, August-September 1981, and touring to Canterbury, Newcastle upon Tyne, Leicester and Sotheby's Belgravia, 1981-82, No 10;
'Albert Goodwin RWS 1845-1932. 129 of His Best Works Borrowed From Private Collections. a Museum Tour of the Royal Watercolour Society', Sheffield Mappin Art Gallery, Ruskin Gallery, Stoke on Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, May-October 1986, No 88;
'In Search of Sun and Shadow. The Art of Albert Goodwin (1845-1932)', Chris Beetles Gallery, October-November 2019, No 128

Chris Beetles' 1986 Limited Edition book links this to the diary entry for 19 April 1909.
Marcus Huish, The Studio, Special Summer Number, Sketching Grounds, 1909 mentions Goodwin's Rye views in general.
Diary, 1909, April 19th.
'Sent for tickets for Baveno, for the four of us to start on Friday next. Went over to Winchelsea and got a note for some sketches of Rye and Winchelsea, wanted to illustrate an article in “Studio”: fortunately I have most of them ready, as they are wanted at once.'

April 21st. 'After all, had to go to London, partly to take up some drawings for reproduction in the “Studio” – six of which are to be done.'

Marcus Huish, The Studio, Special Summer Number, 'Sketching Grounds', 1909.
'Herbert Marshall and Albert Goodwin are amongst those who have made these towns their own, and amonst the latter's most beautiful drawings must be counted some red Cinque Port of Rye. Both it and Winchelsea possess good inns for artists, although the “Mermaid" at the former has now been taken possession of by golfers, who threaten to oust the painter from what was once looked upon as his peculiar possession. There are other towns in Sussex which retain much of their eighteenth-century character, but Rye carries one back much further than that, and it is a mediaeval town that you come upon as you enter the old gateways, both here and at Winchelsea. As regards the first named, subjects abound, both of its streets and of the town and harbour from the flats.'