Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henry-tonks-2055" aria-label="More by Henry Tonks" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Henry Tonks</a>
Spring Days
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1931
actions: postures and motions
adults
art and craft
domestic
flower
flower arranging
furnishings
interiors
leisure and pastimes
living room
mirror
objects
people
plants and flowers
reclining
seasons
sitting
spring
sunbeam
vase
vessels and containers
weather
woman
painting oil paint canvas
30 March 2010 – 25 July 2010
2010-07-25
30 March 2010 – 25 July 2010
2010-07-25
2010-03-30
Museum of the Home (London, UK)
http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk
2010-03-30
A Garden within doors: plants and flowers in the home
Loan-out
Spring Days
support: 864 × 813 mm
frame: 987 × 923 × 75 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1931
<p><b>N04600</b> SPRING DAYS <i>c.</i> 1926–29
<br/>
<br/>Inscr. ‘H. Tonks 1928’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 34×32 (86×81).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1931.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Paintings, Drawings, Engravings and Sculpture by Artists resident in Great Britain and the Dominions</i>, Imperial Gallery of Art, Imperial Institute, April–June 1929 (146); R.A., 1931 (3); Tate Gallery, October–November 1936 (19).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Hone, 1939, pp.215 and 242; John Rothenstein, <i>Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith, </i>1952, pp.91–2.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1931, p.117; <i>Connoisseur</i>, XCVIII, 1936, p.290.</p>
<p>According to Hone 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/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> was begun in 1926 and ‘repainted various times with different models’ as Tonks was never entirely satisfied with it. It may have been worked on after the date inscribed on it.</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
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: postures and motions adults art and craft domestic flower flower arranging furnishings interiors leisure and pastimes living room mirror objects people plants and flowers reclining seasons sitting spring sunbeam vase vessels and containers weather woman