WHERE SHATTERED MOUNTAINS LIE and STUDY FOR THE SOUL’S JOURNEY.

The paintings are listed together because they both depict the same mountain range and the general treatment appears similar.


WHERE SHATTERED MOUNTAINS LIE

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Image: composited from www.artnet.com and Royal Academy Illustrated, 1930.

Sometimes misnamed ‘Where Sheltered Mountains Lie,’ but ‘shattered’ is the word used by the Royal Academy, 1930, and in the 1934 studio sale catalogue.


STUDY FOR THE SOUL’S JOURNEY

This work is usually referred to as simply ‘The Soul’s Journey,’ but it appears from photographs to be the work called ‘Study for The Soul’s Journey’ exhibited in Manchester, 1923, so that is the title used on this web site.

Copyright Glasgow Museums / Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
  • Media: oil on canvas.
  • Dimensions: 1600 x 991 mm (1.60 m²), Christie’s 6 Feb 1948; 1613 x 1003 mm (1.62 m²); average 1607 x 997 mm 1.60 m²).
  • History: exhibited 1923, Manchester Art Gallery (visible in exhibition photo); The Art News (Journal), 12 Apr 1924, “Mrs. Swynnerton … sends [to the Royal Academy], I hear, an allegorical picture of the “Soul’s Journey,” typified by a figure ascending from earth to its spiritual home“; exhibited Royal Academy, 1925 (The Guardian, London, 2 May 1925); “Exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A.; Exhibited Manchester 1932(posthumous studio sale catalogue, typographical error for 1923?); auctioned Christie’s, 9 Feb 1934; auctioned Christie’s, London, 6 Feb 1948, sold to ‘Woodley’; given to Glasgow Museums by Francis Howard, 1952; also known as “The Soul’s Awakening.”
  • Location: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre.

The fact that the mountains in the two paintings form a continuum, suggests that they were painted during the same period in the early 1920s

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Combining the images suggests that the figure in Study for The Soul’s Journey could have originally have been more central and the canvas to have been truncated, or that Where Shattered Mountains Lie may similarly have once been a larger work.


Thanks to Grant Waters for information on the auction history of  ‘Study for The Soul’s Journey’ and other research.


 

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