Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frances-hodgkins-1296" aria-label="More by Frances Hodgkins" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Frances Hodgkins</a>
Flatford Mill
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1951
architecture
East Anglia
England
England, East
Flatford, Flatford Mill
landscape
natural phenomena
places
reflection
river
River Stour
Suffolk
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
water: inland
waterfront
weir
wooded
<p>Hodgkins was a New Zealander who came to Europe in 1901. Based mainly in Britain, she also spent time in Paris. She was a member of the Seven &amp; Five Society. In the 1920s, its members developed an art that was both modern and returned to traditional motifs such as landscape and still life. A strong fascination with British landscape and traditions was evident. This is signalled, perhaps, by the fact that this scene was closely associated with John Constable who painted Flatford Mill in 1816.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
21 October 2002 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
21 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-21
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery (Norwich, UK)
http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk
25 January 2003 – 27 April 2003
2003-04-27
2003-01-25
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales (Cardiff, UK)
2002-10-21
Cedric Morris and His Circle
Loan-out
30 August 2004 – 13 August 2007
2007-08-13
30 August 2004
2004-08-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-08-30
On England
Collection based display
30 November 2012 – 25 September 2022
2022-09-25
30 November 2012
2012-11-30
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-11-30
Gallery 3
Collection based display
31 October 2022
31 October 2022
2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 3
Collection based display
Flatford Mill
support: 724 × 762 mm
frame: 965 × 1003 × 101 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1951
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<p>Frances Hodgkins was a New Zealand-born artist who immigrated to Europe in 1901. She stayed at Flatford Mill in East Bergholt, Suffolk, for six months in 1930. It was closely associated with 19th-century artist John Constable. The high viewpoint from the mill house looks down on the buildings and bridges as well as the mirror-like surface of the water. Hodgkins was a member of the Seven and Five Society who were originally interested in returning to traditional subjects like landscapes or still life at a time when artists were focusing more on abstraction.</p>
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Online caption
2023-12-04T00:00:00
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ONLINE_CAPTION
<p><b>N05978</b> FLATFORD MILL 1930
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<p>Inscr. ‘Frances Hodgkins’ b.l.</p>
<p>Canvas, 28 1/2×30 (72·5×76).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1951.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> There appears to be no record of when and where the C.A.S. acquired this picture.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Arts Council, <i>Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John</i>, Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (62); Arts Council provincial tour, 1952 (5).</p>
<p>Frances Hodgkins stayed at Flatford Mill, in the Constable country, from the end of June to November 1930, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> and preparing for her exhibition to be held at the St George's Gallery that autumn. One of the pictures in that exhibition was entitled ‘Flatford Weir’, but she painted a number of pictures of Flatford Mill, Willy Lott's Cottage and other subjects in the neighbourhood. A picture of Flatford Mill is in the Collection of Mrs Wertheim, bought from the St George's Gallery in 1930.</p>
<p>Two <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> of her at Flatford Mill, in one of which she is seen looking at this picture, were published in <i>The Sphere</i>, 27 September 1930.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture East Anglia England England, East Flatford, Flatford Mill landscape natural phenomena places reflection river River Stour Suffolk townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features waterfront water: inland weir wooded