About this artwork
This celebrated painting is set near Victoria Crowe’s home in the hamlet of Kittleyknowe in the Scottish Borders, where she moved to from London in 1968. Crowe frequently painted her neighbour and friend, the shepherd Jenny Armstrong - she is seen here as a small, dark figure set against the snow. Armstrong had worked all her life in the Borders and Crowe documented her changing relationship with the land over a period of fifteen years. These paintings were exhibited in A Shepherd’s Life at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2000. In 2014, Large Tree Group was reproduced as a tapestry by Dovecot Studios and donated to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Victoria Crowe (born 1945) Scottish
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title:Large Tree Group
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date created:1975
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materials:Oil on board
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measurements:91.40 x 111.00 cm; Framed: 111.00 x 129.40 x 5.00 cm
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credit line:Presented by Mr and Mrs John Butters through the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland 2015
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accession number:GMA 5534
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Victoria Crowe
Victoria Crowe
Born in London, Crowe trained at the Kingston School of Art and the Royal College of Art. She moved to Scotland in 1968 and began teaching at Edinburgh College of Art. She is a painter of still life, interiors, landscapes and portraits, and works in oil and in watercolour. Visits to Italy,...