The Cloud is a 1901 oil painting by the British artist Arthur Hacker.Priestley p.126 It depicts a young nude woman reclining amongst clouds, with the presence of less well prominent figures also shown less prominently.Smith p.112 It is Symbolist in style. The picture was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1901 held at Burlington House in London, where it was accompanied by lines from a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley.https://chronicle250.com/1901#catalogue=arthur+hacker O'Neill & Howe p.568 Today it is in the collection of Cartwright Hall in Bradford, having been purchased in 1902.https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-cloud-23313
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