Gouache on paper
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Contemporary Art Society
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Lake
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940
architecture
boat - non-specific
Bridgnorth
England
England, Midlands
features
furnishings
objects
places
plants and flowers
river
River Severn
Shropshire
society
sunflower
table
transport: water
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
urn
water: inland
paper unique gouache
The Lake
support: 432 × 546 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> 1940
<p><b>N05130</b> THE LAKE <i>c.</i> 1930–5
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Frances Hodgkins’ b.l.
<br/>Gouache, 17×21 1/2 (45×54·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by the C.A.S. from the Lefevre Gallery 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Lefevre Gallery, April 1940 (13).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Arthur R. Howell, <i>Frances Hodgkins, Four Vital Years</i>, 1951, p.111, as ‘River Garden, Bridgnorth’.</p>
<p>Although exhibited in 1940 as ‘The Lake’ this may be a recollection of the Severn at Bridgnorth. Frances Hodgkins conducted a <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> class there in 1926 and paid several subsequent visits, notably in 1930 and 1932 when she was working there with Hannah Ritchie.</p>
<p>Stylistically this painting, with its sunflowers, boats and garden table, appears to relate to the oil ‘Sabrina's Garden’ (Bristol Art Gallery, repr. Myfanwy Evans, <i>Frances Hodgkins</i>, 1948, pl.9), which has been dated 1935, although a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> for this <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/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> is believed to be of 1930 or 1932. Miss Hannah Ritchie wrote (26 August 1951): ‘while I was at work at Bridgnorth in 1932 F.H. made drawings <i>further along the river bank</i>.... It seemed to me that it [“Sabrina's Garden”] is a picture done in her studio after a good deal of thinking round the material she gathered on the 1932 visit to that inspiring bit of the riverside in Bridgnorth.’</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
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2004-10-07T00:00:00
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architecture boat - non-specific Bridgnorth England England, Midlands features furnishings objects places plants and flowers river River Severn Shropshire society sunflower table transport: water UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features urn water: inland