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Loveday and Ann Two Women with a Basket Flowers
Purchased 1944
actions: expressive
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adults
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<p>Frances Hodgkins came to Britain in 1901 from the confined artistic scene of New Zealand. Spending long periods in Cornwall, home to the Newlyn and St Ives Schools, and in Paris, where she taught at the Académie Colarossi, Hodgkins ploughed her own furrow. In typically individualistic style, this portrait combines the mobility of watercolour with the intensity of oil, showcasing the artist's idiosyncratic drawing and quirky sense of colour.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
14 April 2003 – 4 May 2004
2004-05-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-04-14
Private Lives
Collection based display
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
2009-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-10-09
Independently Modern
Collection based display
11 September 2010 – 20 November 2010
2010-11-20
11 September 2010 – 20 November 2010
2010-11-20
2010-09-11
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
2010-09-11
Sea Change: Art in St Ives Between the Wars
Loan-out
7 December 2012 – 22 February 2015
2015-02-22
26 November 2012
2012-11-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-12-07
Gallery 2
Collection based display
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
2017-10-14
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2017-10-14
Modern Art and St Ives
Collection based display
13 March 2021
13 March 2021
2021-03-13
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2021-03-13
Gallery 4: Modern Art and St Ives
Collection based display
Loveday and Ann: Two Women with a Basket of Flowers
support: 673 × 673 mm
Purchased 1944
<p>Frances Hodgkins came to Britain in 1901 from the confined artistic scene of New Zealand. Spending long periods in Cornwall, home to the Newlyn and St Ives Schools, and in Paris, where she taught at the Académie Colarossi, Hodgkins ploughed her own furrow. In typically individualistic style, this portrait combines the mobility of watercolour with the intensity of oil, showcasing the artist's idiosyncratic drawing and quirky sense of colour.
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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05456</b> LOVEDAY AND ANN: TWO WOMEN WITH A BASKET OF FLOWERS 1915
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<br/>Inscr. ‘F Hodgkins’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 26 1/2×26 1/2 (67×67).
<br/>Purchased from Mrs Hope Smith (Knapping Fund) 1944.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased from the artist by Moffat Lindner, the father of Mrs Hope Smith, 1915.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> National Portrait Society, February–March 1916 (16), as ‘Loveday and Ann’; Arts Council, <i>Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John,</i> Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (58); Arts Council, provincial tour, 1952 (1).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith</i>, 1952, pp.117–18.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>The Windmill</i>, 1, No.2, 1945, facing p.55; exh. cat., <i>Tate Gallery Continental Exhibition</i>, Rome, 1947, p.32, No.26.</p>
<p>Sir John Rothenstein (<i>loc. cit.</i>) states that this picture was her first oil <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> and quotes a letter from the artist written to him on 7 October 1945 from Corfe Castle: ‘In reply to your request for the date when “Two Women with a Basket of Flowers” was painted I think 1915 St Ives is sufficiently accurate - I remember Mr Moffat Lindner liking it so much that he bought it as soon as it was finished and from then on it hung in his beautiful house among the Elite.’ 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/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of Moffat Lindner, 1916, repr. In Myfanwy Evans, <i>Frances Hodgkins</i>, 1948, pl.1 and described as <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tempera" title="Glossary definition for 'Tempera'"><span>tempera</span></a>, is somewhat similar in treatment and was also shown in the National Portrait Society, 1916. Mrs Hope Smith wrote (4 December 1957): ‘My father bought the picture while she was still painting it ... and I remember watching her at work on it.... The girls were just two fishermen's daughters, models.’ A label on the back gives the address as 7 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, where the artist lived from November 1914 till October 1917, except for summer visits for sketching classes.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults basket Cornwall domestic England England, Southern England, South West family flower interior - non-specific interiors objects people places plants and flowers sister sitting smiling society St Ives UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions vessels and containers woman