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Source of the Thames

(1994 United Kingdom)

James Hyman Gallery



Artist(s): MICHAEL ANDREWS (1928-1995)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 183.00cm wide   213.50cm high (72.05 inches wide  84.06 inches high)
Provenance:

The Estate of Michael Andrews

Literature:

Thea Jourdan, ‘Picture of an artist without an ego’, The Scotsman Magazine, 12 July 1995
William Feaver, Michael Andrews. The Thames Paintings, exhibition catalogue Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, 1998 (p. 22, colour illustration p. 23)
William Packer, ‘Elegies by the riverside’, Financial Times, 13-14 June 1998, p.7
Colin St John Wilson, The Artist at Work, On the Working Methods of William Coldstream and Michael Andrews, Lund Humphries, London, 1999 (colour illustration p. 61)
Paul Moorhouse and William Feaver (eds), Michael Andrews, Tate Publishing, London, 2001 (no. 96, illustration p. 158)
Paula Adamick, ‘A Legacy of Light’, The Scotsman (Visual Arts), 8 August 2001
William Boyd, ‘From Ayers Rock to Zen. Michael Andrews: an exploration from A to Z’, in Modern Painters, April 2002 (pp. 44-49, colour illustration, p. 49)
Michael Andrews: Landscapes, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2005, (cat. 14), illustrated (un-numbered).

Exhibition History:

Michael Andrews. The Thames Paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, 1998
Michael Andrews, Tate Gallery, London, 2001
Michael Andrews. Landscapes, James Hyman Gallery, London, 2005

Description:

Source of the Thames is the last painting on which Andrew’s worked and one of his boldest pictures.