Word: hadleigh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the juvenilia (a graffito he scratched on a beam in the family mill when he was 16) and memorabilia, to the grand series of 6-ft. landscapes he painted in the 1820s and '30s. These include The Hay Wain, The Leaping Horse, Salisbury Cathedral, from the Meadows, Hadleigh Castle. In them Constable did to the perception of landscape in paint what Wordsworth had done to it in verse...
This is the landscape of touch. In Hadleigh Castle, c. 1829-a gloomy ruin at the mouth of the Thames, painted around the time of his wife's death from consumption-Constable's tactility reaches its extreme. A cowherd and his collie are encrusted blobs, identical in substance to the rocks, the ruin, the clouds; liquid or scumbled, the tossing white brush marks in the sky have a resolutely material quality for which there were no parallels in European painting...