Harold Harvey and Friends Study Day

Art history lecture on Cornish Artist Harold Harvey and his artist friends followed by a guided tour of the Harold Harvey exhibition at Penlee house

This study day begins with an illustrated lecture by Art Historian Catherine Wallace on “A Cornish Painter: Harold Harvey (1874-1941)”. Harold Harvey was one of the few Newlyn painters who was born in Cornwall, eldest of 8 children he grew up in Penzance and was taught by Norman Garstin.

After a short stay in Paris for two years furthering his studies he returned to Cornwall and married fellow painter Gertrude Bodinnar. The Harveys lived a modest life but became friends with Laura and Harold Knight and Dod and Ernest Procter who were to influence Harold’s painting style enormously. A painter of Cornish people and the Cornish landscape in an ever increasingly colourful palette, Harold Harvey’s paintings combine observation with a compositional inventiveness and a clarity of light which gave them a unique style and define him as a painter.

This talk places Harold Harvey’s work in a wider context of those around him and looks at his main motifs. After lunch, Catherine gives a guided tour of the Harold Harvey exhibition at Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Morrab Road, Penzance TR18 4HE.

Please note lunch is not included in the price nor is the Museum entrance free.