Object number
UAC/10305
Title
The Running of the Hare,
Exhibition
Creator
Description
Linocut of a running hare, with both stages shown. The hare is depicted in colour outstretched with an outline of the bunched hare interposed. The background is green with lines representing grasses. Signed 'Robert Gillmor'.
Physical description
linocut on paper
Label Text
<div style="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><p><span><span>Gillmor describes this print, which superimposes two images of a hare in extreme attitudes as it runs across a field, as the result of “doodling” or “chasing an idea around on a pad of cheap paper until it begins to come under control”. The idea here is to convey the movement of the hare, with the bottom coloured image showing it stretched out as it flies forward, and the top image, seen only in outline, showing its feet tucked beneath it, primed to kick-off once more.</span></span></p><p><span><span>The print is part of a pair, with a second entitled Leaper’s Leap, and belongs to larger number of Gillmor’s prints featuring hares drawn from sketches made on the Norfolk nature reserve and in local fields.</span></span></p></div>
Production date
1992 - 1992
School/style
British
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Credit line
The University of Reading Art Collection © Estate of Robert Gillmor
