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Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Sharpening the scythe
1897
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Internet prints title
The reaper

oil on canvas
687 x 508 mm
SIGNED b.l.c. R. H 97

EXHIBITED
Ralph Hedley: Tyneside Painter,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1990-91

PUBLIC COLLECTION 

Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Reference TWCMS : F5157
Given by Miss Wilson,
Hutton House, Hutton Rudby
Near Yarm, Yorkshire 1940

Ralph Hedley Archive reference
1897_w004

Sharpening the scythe

Late summer, and the sun was high in the sky when Ralph Hedley sketched this man using a carborundum stick to put an edge on the blade. His brushstrokes were so lively and rapid that they look like scribbles where they represent cut stalks of grass.

Hedley later used the subject of the scythe in By the wayside, (1899-W002a), shown at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1899 (608)

By the wayside Ralph Hedley R.B.A. 1899 oil on canvas 1250 x 1000 mm SIGNED b.r.c.  R Hedley Newport Museum and Art Gallery South Wales NP20 1PA Reference NPTMG : 1914.12