Oil paint on canvas
Social class and social type
Artworks
Walter Richard Sickert
Camden Town Group
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Tipperary
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
arts and entertainment
bar
clothing and personal items
fine arts and music
hat, bonnet
history
home front
individuals: female
instrument, piano
interiors
leisure and pastimes
military: World War I
model
music
music and entertainment
named individuals
objects
people
places of entertainment
portraits
Powell, Emily, ‘Chicken’
singing
sitting
social comment
society
studio
war
woman
work and occupations
workspaces
<p>Sickert's model 'Chicken' is playing 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary', one of the popular songs British troops sang as they marched away to the trenches in the First World War. Although born in Munich, Sickert was appalled by Germany's agression and much regretted being too old to enlist.This is one of a number of similar piano subjects made early in the war in Sickert's studio at 26 Red Lion Square. They are all briskly and informally painted, Sickert telling his friend Ethel Sands how he used 'thin free hard rubs of paint mixed with turpentine'. As with so many of his works Sickert's use of an evocative title transforms the picture, here making the viewer imagine the tune and emotion of the moment.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 1996</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 February 2001 – 2 June 2003
2003-06-02
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2001-02-01
Modern British Art II
Collection based display
15 October 2003 – 18 April 2004
2004-04-18
15 October 2003 – 18 April 2004
2004-04-18
2003-10-15
Imperial War Museum (London, UK)
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
2003-10-15
Women and War
Loan-out
13 February 2008 – 4 May 2008
2008-05-04
13 February 2008 – 4 May 2008
2008-05-04
2008-02-13
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2008-02-13
Camden Town Group
Exhibition
24 March 2017 – 2 July 2017
2017-07-02
24 March 2017 – 2 July 2017
2017-07-02
2017-03-24
Musée des impressionnismes (Giverny, France)
2017-03-24
In Concert (Tintamarre!), musical instruments in art from 1860 to 1910
Loan-out
Tipperary
support: 508 × 406 mm
frame: 600 × 500 × 55 mm
Bequeathed by Lady Henry Cavendish-Bentinck 1940
<p>Sickert's model 'Chicken' is playing 'It's a Long Way to Tipperary', one of the popular songs British troops sang as they marched away to the trenches in the First World War. Although born in Munich, Sickert was appalled by Germany's agression and much regretted being too old to enlist.<br/>This is one of a number of similar piano subjects made early in the war in Sickert's studio at 26 Red Lion Square. They are all briskly and informally painted, Sickert telling his friend Ethel Sands how he used 'thin free hard rubs of paint mixed with turpentine'. As with so many of his works Sickert's use of an evocative title transforms the picture, here making the viewer imagine the tune and emotion of the moment.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults arts and entertainment bar clothing and personal items fine arts and music hat, bonnet history home front individuals: female instrument, piano interiors leisure and pastimes military: World War I model music music and entertainment named individuals objects people places of entertainment portraits Powell, Emily, ‘Chicken’ singing sitting social comment society studio war woman work and occupations workspaces