Oil paint on canvas
Tate Britain
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Henry Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/frank-holl-267" aria-label="More by Frank Holl" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Frank Holl</a>
Hushed
Presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
baby
birth to death
children
cradle
death
domestic
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
family
features
furnishings
girl
grief
head in hand / hands
interiors
kitchen
living room
mother and child
mourning
objects
people
saucepan
sitting
society
window
woman
<p>Child death was a common occurrence in Victorian society. <span>Hushed</span> is a companion piece to Holl’s painting <span>Hush!</span> And shows the death of a baby. The mother covers her face with her hand in a gesture of grief, while her other child appears bewildered. Frank Holl confronts his subject directly, without sentimentality. The sombre colouring and the strong contrasts between light and shade heighten the grim mood.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2023</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 February 2005 – 2 May 2005
2005-05-02
4 February 2005 – 2 May 2005
2005-05-02
2005-02-04
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2005-02-04
Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
Exhibition
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
19 May 2012 – 2 December 2012
2012-12-02
2012-05-19
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-05-19
Victorian Sentimentality
Collection based display
18 June 2013 – 30 March 2014
2014-03-30
18 June 2013 – 3 November 2013
2013-11-03
2013-06-18
Watts Gallery - Artists’ Village (Compton, UK)
http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk
23 November 2013 – 30 March 2014
2014-03-30
2013-11-23
Mercer Art Gallery (Harrogate, UK)
http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/immediacy-1405#MercerArtGallery
2013-06-18
Frank Holl
Loan-out
1 February 2019 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
1 February 2019 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
2019-02-01
Fondation de l’Hermitage (Lausanne, Switzerland)
http://www.fondation-hermitage.ch
2019-02-01
British painting during the Victorian era
Loan-out
Hushed
support: 343 × 445 mm
frame: 670 × 770 × 140 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999962" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Sir Henry Tate</a> 1894
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<p>Child death was a common occurrence in Victorian society. In Hush a mother devotedly watches over her sick baby, her anxiety mirrored in the face of an older child. Hushed, its companion piece, shows the baby’s death. The mother covers her face with her hand in a gesture of grief, while her other child appears bewildered. Frank Holl confronts his subject directly, without sentimentality. The sombre colouring and the strong contrasts between light and shade heighten the grim mood.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults architecture baby birth to death children cradle death domestic emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas family features furnishings girl grief head in hand / hands interiors kitchen living room mother and child mourning objects people saucepan sitting society window woman