The Young Rower

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Acclaimed as the Royal Academy ‘Picture of the Year’ in 1932, ‘The Young Rower’ is similar in style to paintings by Dod Procter and Laura Knight of young, unselfconscious women. In comparison, despite its cool tonality and what the Sunday Times reporter described as the model’s ‘Degas-like pose’, it has a distinctly voyeuristic quality. As Sir Thomas Monnington, President of the Royal Academy in the 1960s, later recalled, ‘It looked chaste, but it was quite sexy really.’

Touchstones Rochdale

Rochdale

Title

The Young Rower

Date

1932

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 102 x W 76 cm

Accession number

585

Acquisition method

gift from Councillor A. W. Kay-Menzies, 1933

Work type

Painting

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