George Edward Marston (1882-1940) The returning Sun signed 'G MARSTON' (lower right) pencil and watercolour 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm.) PROVENANCE: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922). Cecily Jane Swinford Shackleton (inscription on the glass 'Miss Shackleton'), and thence by descent. EXHIBITED: (probably) London, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, The British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9 , July-Oct. 1909, 'Water-colour drawings, pastels, etchings, &c. by George Marston', no. 13 ("Returning Day"). LITERATURE: E.H. Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic , London, 1909, II, coloured plate facing p.26. 'Marston found, as other artists have found, that Nature's colour-schemes in the Antarctic are remarkably crude, though often wondrously beautiful. Bright blues and greens are seen in violent contrast with brilliant reds, and an accurate record of the colours displayed in a sunset, as seen over broken ice, would suggest to many people an impressionistic poster of the kind seen in the London streets. Words fail in an attempt to describe the wildly bizzarre effects observed on days when the sky was fiery red and pale green, merging into deep blue overhead, and the snow-fields and rocks showed violet, green and white under the light of the moon.' (E.H. Shackleton, op. cit. , II, p.27).
George Edward Marston (1882-1940) The returning Sun signed 'G MARSTON' (lower right) pencil and watercolour 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm.) PROVENANCE: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922). Cecily Jane Swinford Shackleton (inscription on the glass 'Miss Shackleton'), and thence by descent. EXHIBITED: (probably) London, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, The British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9 , July-Oct. 1909, 'Water-colour drawings, pastels, etchings, &c. by George Marston', no. 13 ("Returning Day"). LITERATURE: E.H. Shackleton, The Heart of the Antarctic , London, 1909, II, coloured plate facing p.26. 'Marston found, as other artists have found, that Nature's colour-schemes in the Antarctic are remarkably crude, though often wondrously beautiful. Bright blues and greens are seen in violent contrast with brilliant reds, and an accurate record of the colours displayed in a sunset, as seen over broken ice, would suggest to many people an impressionistic poster of the kind seen in the London streets. Words fail in an attempt to describe the wildly bizzarre effects observed on days when the sky was fiery red and pale green, merging into deep blue overhead, and the snow-fields and rocks showed violet, green and white under the light of the moon.' (E.H. Shackleton, op. cit. , II, p.27).
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