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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-william-nicholson-1703" aria-label="More by Sir William Nicholson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir William Nicholson</a>
Miss Jekylls Gardening Boots
Presented by Lady Emily Lutyens 1944
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clothing and personal items
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<p>Gertrude Jekyll was a well known garden designer, who often worked in collaboration with the architect Edwin Lutyens. In 1920 she was seventy-six, and quite difficult. It is said that Nicholson painted this picture of her boots while he was waiting the opportunity of a sitting, as she would only allow this in the late afternoon. However, Nicholson enjoyed finding the revelation of character in clothing. He had painted other pictures of shoes, and of a hat.</p><p>The painting is dedicated 'For E.L.', and was a gift to Lutyens. Nicholson's portrait of Miss Jekyll is at the National Portrait Gallery.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint wood
3 June 2004 – 15 May 2005
2005-05-15
3 June 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
2004-06-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
15 March 2005 – 15 May 2005
2005-05-15
2005-03-15
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
2004-06-03
Art of the Garden
Exhibition
4 October 2011 – 4 November 2011
2011-11-04
4 October 2011 – 4 November 2011
2011-11-04
2011-10-04
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert (London, UK)
2011-10-04
Sir William Nicholson Oil Painitns Catalogue Exhibition
Loan-out
15 May 2013 – 8 September 2013
2013-09-08
15 May 2013 – 8 September 2013
2013-09-08
2013-05-15
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2013-05-15
Gertrude Jekyll: A Life
Loan-out
30 January 2016 – 20 April 2016
2016-04-20
30 January 2016 – 20 April 2016
2016-04-20
2016-01-30
Royal Academy of Arts (London, UK)
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk
2016-01-30
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Loan-out
22 March 2017 – 23 July 2017
2017-07-23
22 March 2017 – 23 July 2017
2017-07-23
2017-03-22
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Paris, France)
2017-03-22
Jardins
Loan-out
27 March 2019 – 11 August 2019
2019-08-11
27 March 2019 – 11 August 2019
2019-08-11
2019-03-27
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-03-27
Van Gogh and Britain
Exhibition
Miss Jekyll’s Gardening Boots
support: 324 × 400 mm
frame: 595 × 673 × 57 mm
Presented by Lady Emily Lutyens 1944
<p>Gertrude Jekyll was a well known garden designer, who often worked in collaboration with the architect Edwin Lutyens. In 1920 she was seventy-six, and quite difficult. It is said that Nicholson painted this picture of her boots while he was waiting the opportunity of a sitting, as she would only allow this in the late afternoon. However, Nicholson enjoyed finding the revelation of character in clothing. He had painted other pictures of shoes, and of a hat.<br/> <br/>The <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> is dedicated 'For E.L.', and was a gift to Lutyens. Nicholson's <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of Miss Jekyll is at the National Portrait Gallery.</p>
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<p><b>N05548</b>	MISS JEKYLL'S GARDENING BOOTS 1920</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Nicholson 1920’ b.l. and ‘For E L ... W.N’ t.r.
<br/>Oil on plywood, 12 3/4×15 3/4 (32·5×40), including red painted border approximately  1/4 (0·75) wide.
<br/>Presented by Lady Emily Lutyens 1944.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Presented by the artist to Sir Edwin Lutyens 1920.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Beaux Arts Gallery, July 1927 (75); Nottingham, March–April 1933 (95); Beaux Arts Gallery, May–June 1933 (41); <i>British Country Life through The Centuries</i>, 39 Grosvenor Square, June 1937 (392, repr. <i>Souvenir</i>, p.43); National Gallery, January 1942 (35).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> E. V. Lucas, ‘Miss Gertrude Jekyll’ in <i>Country Life</i>, LXXI, 1932, p.536, repr.; Steen, 1943, p.140; Browse, 1956, p.72.</p>
<p>Painted in 1920 to accompany the <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of Miss Jekyll commissioned by Sir Edwin Lutyens and now in the National Portrait Gallery (repr. Steen, 1943, facing p.144; Nichols, 1948, pl.16). Miss Gertrude Jekyll, an enthusiastic horticulturist, died in 1932 at the age of eighty-nine; she used to wear this old pair of army boots for gardening. A pair of her boots and other relics are exhibited with her horticultural collection at the Guildford Museum.</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, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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boot clothing and personal items objects