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'Landscape Head' is dated February 1950 when Wells worked as a studio assistant to Barbara Hepworth in St Ives. At this time Wells made a number of paintings in which figures merge with the landscape. This image is closely related to another painting Wells made in 1949 entitled 'Head Landscape'.

Wells, a doctor on the Isles of Scilly during the War, was encouraged to become a practising artist by Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo – key figures in British Constructivism then living in Carbis Bay, Cornwall.

The Pier Arts Centre

Stromness

Title

Landscape Head

Date

1950

Medium

oil & pencil on board

Measurements

H 40.7 x W 30.7 cm

Accession number

PAC 66

Acquisition method

gift from Margaret Gardiner, 1979

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

1. exhibition sticker label for Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Out of Place: Works from the Pier Arts Centre collection). 2. gallery sticker label unidentified. 3. exhibition label (artist name and title). 4. exhibition label for Tate (Pier Gallery Collection 20th Sept-29th Oct 1978). 5. exhibition label for Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums (Pier Gallery Collection, 1978).

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