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Wings over Water
Presented by Geoffrey, Peter and Richard Gorer in memory of Rèe Alice Gorer 1954
animals: birds
animals: features
architecture
coast
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
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flower
memory
parrot
plants and flowers
sea
seascapes and coasts
shell
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<p>Frances Hodgkins was born in New Zealand and first came to Europe in 1901. She taught in Paris between 1910 and 1912 and settled in England in 1914. She was a close friend of Cedric Morris and Lett Haines, the former proposing her membership of the Seven and Five in 1929. 'Wings over Water' is typical of Seven and Five artists in its depiction of a table-top still life set before a window. It was painted in the artist's studio in Hampstead, an area of North London much favoured by avant-garde British artists at the time, and evokes memories of Cornwall where she had settled in 1914.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</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
12 November 2005 – 10 September 2006
2006-09-10
5 November 2005 – 2 April 2006
2006-04-02
2005-11-05
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
3 June 2006 – 15 October 2006
2006-10-15
2006-06-03
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin, New Zealand)
http://www.dunedin.art.museum
1 December 2006 – 25 February 2007
2007-02-25
2006-12-01
Christchurch Art Gallery (Christchurch, New Zealand)
2005-11-12
Leitmotif - Recurring themes in the art of Frances Hodgkins
Loan-out
10 February 2018 – 11 December 2018
2018-12-11
10 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
2018-02-10
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
26 May 2018 – 16 September 2018
2018-09-16
2018-05-26
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2 October 2018 – 11 December 2018
2018-12-11
2018-10-02
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2018-02-10
Virginia Woolf
Exhibition
26 May 2018 – 9 December 2018
2018-12-09
26 May 2018 – 16 September 2018
2018-09-16
2018-05-26
Pallant House Gallery (Chichester, UK)
2 October 2018 – 9 December 2018
2018-12-09
2018-10-02
Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge, UK)
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
2018-05-26
Virginia Woolf
Loan-out
12 October 2018
12 October 2018
2018-10-12
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-10-12
Ideas Depot
Collection based display
Wings over Water
support: 711 × 914 mm
Presented by Geoffrey, Peter and Richard Gorer in memory of Rèe Alice Gorer 1954
<p>Frances Hodgkins was born in New Zealand and first came to Europe in 1901. She taught in Paris between 1910 and 1912 and settled in England in 1914. She was a close friend of Cedric Morris and Lett Haines, the former proposing her membership of 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/s/seven-and-five-society" title="Glossary definition for 'Seven and Five Society'"><span>Seven and Five</span></a> in 1929. 'Wings over Water' is typical of Seven and Five artists in its depiction of a table-top <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/still-life" title="Glossary definition for 'Still life'"><span>still life</span></a> set before a window. It was painted in the artist's studio in Hampstead, an area of North London much favoured by <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/avant-garde" title="Glossary definition for 'Avant-garde'"><span>avant-garde</span></a> British artists at the time, and evokes memories of Cornwall where she had settled in 1914.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N06237</b> WINGS OVER WATER 1930
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Frances Hodgkins’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 28×36 (71×91).
<br/>Presented in memory of Rée Alice Gorer, 1873–1954, by her sons Geoffrey, Peter and Richard 1954.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Mrs R. A. Gorer from the artist.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> British Council, <i>Selection for the XXI Venice Biennale</i>, Hertford House, 1940 (109), as ‘In Cornwall’; Arts Council, <i>Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John</i>, Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (165).</p>
<p>Painted in the late autumn of 1930, when the artist was living at 12 Primrose Hill Road, N.W.3. It is one of several <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> of the same motif, the bird and the shell (the air and the sea) - a memory of Cornwall. Another picture of the same theme at Temple Newsam, Leeds, is repr. in Myfanwy Evans, <i>Frances Hodgkins</i>, 1948, pl.11, as ‘Wings on Water’. Geoffrey Gorer wrote (24 February 1955): ‘The version we got was one of the very few pictures with which she expressed herself completely satisfied shortly after completing it - she was usually full of criticism of the failure of her work to achieve what she wanted.’</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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animals: birds animals: features architecture coast emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas features flower memory parrot plants and flowers sea seascapes and coasts shell window