Oil paint on canvas
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Contemporary Art Society
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Adam and Eve in Garden Eden
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1942
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
Adam
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: birds
animals: mammals
architecture
bending forward
Bible: Old Testament
bird - non-specific
body
couple
emotions, concepts and ideas
Eve
features
female
flower
food and drink
fruit, pear
garden
Garden of Eden
Garden of Eden
garden structures
gardening
hand
holding hands
horse
idyll
landscape
male
man
mythical, religious, fictional
nudes
objects
palm
people
places
plant
plants and flowers
religion and belief
sex and relationships
society
universal concepts
vase
vessels and containers
walking
window
woman
wooded
work and occupations
<p>The Garden of Eden is here reinstated as a horticultural fantasy, defined by its relationship with an unseen domestic interior. Mahoney's image of perfection glimpsed from a window was created in the mid-1930s, when the idea of the garden was actually an accomplice of suburbanisation.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2003</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
10 March 2003 – July 2003
Mar 2003 – July 2003
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-10
Broken Ground
Collection based display
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
support: 914 × 762 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> 1942
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    The Garden of Eden is here reinstated  as a horticultural fantasy, defined by  its relationship with an unseen      domestic interior.  Mahoney's image of perfection glimpsed from a      window was created  in the mid-1930s, when the idea of the garden was      actually an accomplice  of suburbanisation.  </div>

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2003-05-07T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05323</b> ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN <i>c.</i> 1936</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Oil on canvas, 36×30 (91·5×76·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1942.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> C.A.S., 1941.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., 1936 (199), as ‘Adam and Eve’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Herbert Furst, ‘Standards of Criticism’ in <i>Apollo</i>, XXXVI, 1942, p.15, repr. p.16.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Studio</i>, CXXIV, 1942, p.12.</p>
<p>Hitherto catalogued as ‘The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden’.</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
2004-07-21T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions Adam adults agriculture and fishing animals: birds animals: mammals architecture bending forward Bible: Old Testament bird - non-specific body couple emotions, concepts and ideas Eve features female flower food and drink fruit, pear garden gardening Garden of Eden Garden of Eden garden structures hand holding hands horse idyll landscape male man mythical, religious, fictional nudes objects palm people places plant plants and flowers religion and belief sex and relationships society universal concepts vase vessels and containers walking window woman wooded work and occupations