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Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
The winnowing sheet
1898
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

oil on canvas
1216 x 1617 mm
SIGNED b.r.c. R. Hedley 1898

EXHIBITED

Royal Academy, London, 1898 (926)

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1898 (10766)

Oldham Art Gallery, 1899 (325)

Art Circle, Newcastle, 1903

Nottingham Castle Museum,
Silver Anniversary Exhibition, 1903 (78)    

Studio sale, 1913
(Executors’ Book 13)

Loan Exhibition of Works
by Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1938 (73)

Exhibition of paintings
by Ralph Hedley R.B.A.
Shipley Art Gallery,
Gateshead, 1938-39  (41)

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

 

PUBLIC COLLECTION 

Laing Art Gallery,
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Reference TWCMS : G1748
Given by the executors of Ralph Hedley, 1938

 

Ralph Hedley Archive reference
1898_w018

The winnowing sheet

As the grain is tossed in a blanket, the wind blows through the barn and takes away the chaff - the husks of the grain. The grain is heavier and falls back into the blanket.