drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0601.27
- Description
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Gestural depiction of blue bird with head bowed, flapping its wings, black legs. 1974
Gouache and charcoal
- Production date
- 1974
- Dimensions
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Height: 492 millimetres
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Width: 398 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- David Brown believed that the blue bird desperately flapping its wings expressed Hilton's immobility when bedridden.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980 Feb and tour, Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, Roger Hilton, no. 34
1982, Sakastoon Gallery and Conservation Corporation, Roger Hilton
1983, Arts Council of Great Britain, Alive to Tell it All, no. 83
1993-1994, London, Hayward Gallery and NTE Tour, Roger Hilton
1997, St. Ives, Tate, 'Roger Hilton, An Instrument of Truth'
2003-2004 Dec-April, BM, Three Great Gifts: The David Brown Bequest
2004-2005 Oct-Jan, Southampton City Art Gallery, Boom Boom Cluster
2006-2007 Oct-Jan, St. Ives, Tate, 'Roger Hilton'
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0601.27
