page_title: George Hemming Mason
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: George Hemming Mason / Works
context_page_description: George Heming Mason ARA was an English landscape painter of rural scenes, initially in Italy, then England itself. He was also known as "George Mason" or "George Hemming Mason".
context_section_description: Mason's three largest English compositions were: "The Evening Hymn", "Girls Dancing" and "The Harvest Moon". In the latter, the scythes cutting against the sky form a magnificent composition, but it is doubtful if any exceed in poetic sentiment "Yarrow", "The Cast Shoe", "Home from Milking", "The Young Anglers" and "A Landscape, Derbyshire".
  The following pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy:
  "Ploughing in the Campagna" (1857)
  "In the Salt Marshes" and "Campagna di Roma" (1859)
  "Landscape (1861)
  "Mist on the Moors" (1862)
  "Catch" (1863)
  "Returning from Ploughing" (1864)
  "The Gander", "The Geese" and "The Cast Shoe" (1865; Tate, London)
  "Yarrow", "Landscape, North Staffordshire" and "The Young Anglers" (1866)
  "Evening, Matlock", and "The Unwilling Playmate" (1867)
  "The Evening Hymn" and "Netley [a misprint for 'Wetley'] Moor" (1868)
  "Only a Shower", "Three Studies from Nature" and "Girls Dancing" (1869)
  "Landscape, Derbyshire" (1870)
  "Blackberry Gathering" and "The Milk Maid" (1871)
  "The Harvest Moon (1872)
  At the Dudley Gallery was exhibited: "Sketch from Nature, Angmering, Sussex", "The Clothes Line" and "Landscape, Staffordshire, near Southport".
  "Crossing the Moor" was in an exhibition held at the Cosmopolitan Club.
  In 1873 an exhibition of his works was held at the Burlington Fine Arts Club - featuring many of his most charming pictures and compositions which had not been exhibited before: "The Return from Milking", "Wetley Rocks", "Wind in the Wolds", "Ploughing in the Campagna", "La Trita", "Love" and "Home from Work".
  Some of Mason's work was engraved by various artists including Harvest Moon by R W Macbeth.
caption: The Harvest Moon, 1872.
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