Oil paint on canvas
Modernity and metropolis
Artworks
Stanislawa de Karlowska
Camden Town Group
Tate Britain
Tate Collection
Works with images
Works on display
General Collection
Collection
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Swiss Cottage
Presented by the artist's family 1954
adults
architecture
awning
children
clothing and personal items
coat
England
food and drink
fruit - non-specific
girl
group
groups
hat
hoop
man
objects
people
places
places of entertainment
pram
public and municipal
public house / bar
shop
society
street
Swiss Cottage, Finchley Road
townscapes / man-made features
toys and models
transport: land
UK countries and regions
UK London
vegetable - non-specific
woman
<p>Although De Karlowska’s husband Robert Bevan was a founder-member of the Camden Town Group, as a woman, De Karlowska was excluded. She exhibited instead in the more liberal areas of London's contemporary art scene such as the Allied Artists Exhibitions, where this painting was shown in 1914. As in <i>Fried Fish Shop</i>, also on show here, in <i>Swiss Cottage</i> De Karlowska addresses the question that was absorbing many artists - how to depict the modern city. Departing radically from artistic tradition, she uses non-naturalistic colour and the deliberate naivety of primitivism, the deliberate naivety drawn from ‘primitive art’ that fascinated early twentieth-century artists.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
2009-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-10-09
Independently Modern
Collection based display
30 October 2013 – 1 March 2014
2014-03-01
30 October 2013 – 1 March 2014
2014-03-01
2013-10-30
Ben Uri Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.benuri.org.uk/
2013-10-30
Uproar!: The First 50 Years of The London Group
Loan-out
31 October 2022
31 October 2022
2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Gallery 4
Collection based display
Swiss Cottage
support: 609 × 765 × 17 mm
frame: 788 × 940 × 90 mm
Presented by the artist's family 1954
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<p>Stanislawa De Karlowska addresses the question popular among many artists of her time about how to depict the modern city. Here, she depicts city residents going about their daily chores. Her use of colour turns grocery shopping into art. Although De Karlowska’s husband Robert Bevan was a founder member of the Camden Town Group, as a woman, she was excluded. De Karlowska exhibited instead in the more liberal areas of London’s contemporary art scene such as the Allied Artists Exhibitions, where this painting was shown in 1914.</p>
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