David Bomberg: A Pioneer of Modernism

David Bomberg

Barges, 1919

Oil on canvas

Tate

This painting was one of two studies of barges that Bomberg exhibited at the London Group in November 1919 and one of a series of canals and barges that he created between 1919-21. It is thought to represent the Regent's Canal (Bomberg was then living in Hampstead). Prior to the war he has painted an earlier series of barges at Rotherhithe and Wapping and a further series at Teddington in 1920.