Oil paint on canvas
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Morning
Presented by the Daily Mail 1927
actions: postures and motions
actions: processes and functions
adults
Barnes, Cissie
bed
bedroom
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furnishings
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interiors
morning
named individuals
objects
people
pillow
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sleeping
times of the day
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<p>In 1922, Procter began to paint a series of simple, monumental portraits of young women that she knew. Emphasising the fall of light across the figures, Proctor gave them a powerful presence. This painting features Cissie Barnes, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a fisherman from Newlyn in Cornwall. This village was home to Procter for most of her working life. This painting was voted 'Picture of the Year' at the 1927 Summer Exhibition, a yearly show at the Royal Academy in London. It was bought for the nation by the Daily Mail newspaper. The popularity of the painting led to its being displayed in New York, followed by a tour of Britain.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2020</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 December 2005 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
5 December 2005 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
2005-12-05
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2005-12-05
Realisms
Collection based display
23 June 2007 – 15 September 2007
2007-09-15
15 September 2007 – 24 November 2007
2007-11-24
2007-09-15
Penlee House Gallery & Museum (Penzance, UK)
8 December 2007 – 17 February 2008
2008-02-17
2007-12-08
Djanogly Art Gallery (Nottingham, UK)
2007-06-23
Dod Procter (1892 - 1972)
Loan-out
26 April 2016
26 April 2016
2016-04-26
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2016-04-26
Studio Practice
Collection based display
5 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
5 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
2018-09-23
2018-06-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-06-05
Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
Exhibition
Morning
support: 762 × 1524 mm
frame: 1072 × 1832 × 73 mm
Presented by the Daily Mail 1927
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<li>In 1922, Procter began to paint a series of simple, monumental portraits of young women that she knew. Emphasising the fall of light across the figures, Proctor gave them a powerful presence. This painting features Cissie Barnes, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a fisherman from Newlyn in Cornwall. This village was home to Procter for most of her working life. This painting was voted 'Picture of the Year' at the 1927 Summer Exhibition, a yearly show at the Royal Academy in London. It was bought for the nation by the Daily Mail newspaper.  The popularity of the painting led to its being displayed in New York, followed by a tour of Britain.</li>
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2020-08-21T00:00:00
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<p><b>N04270</b> MORNING 1926</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Dod Procter 1926’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 30×60 (76×152·5).
<br/>Presented by the <i>Daily Mail</i> 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
R.A., 1927 (735).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Frank Rutter, <i>Sunday Times</i>, 1 May 1927; Mary Chamot, ‘Ernest and Dod Procter’ in <i>Apollo</i>, VI, 1927, pp.251–2; Dame Laura Knight, <i>Oil Paint and Grease Paint</i>, 1936, pp.284–5.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1927, p.85; <i>Studio</i>, XCIII, 1927, p.423; Hesketh Hubbard, <i>A Hundred Years of British Painting 1851–1951</i>, 1951, pl.44.</p>
<p>‘Morning’ received almost unanimous praise from the art critics on the opening of the R.A. and was acclaimed ‘the picture of the year’. Immediately following the announcement of the proposed gift to the nation on 3 May 1927 numerous applications poured into the <i>Daily Mail</i>
from provincial galleries eager to obtain the loan of the picture.</p>
<p>The model, sixteen-year-old Miss Cissie Barnes, daughter of a fish merchant of Newlyn, posed for Mrs Procter almost every day for five weeks (<i>Daily Mail</i> report, 4 May 1927). A variation on the same theme is ‘Sleeping Girl’, which was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in December 1927 (13; repr. <i>Apollo</i>, VI, 1927, p.252), but this only shows the head and arms of the model. Miss Cissie Barnes was also model for a number of other <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>paintings</span></a> by Dod Procter.</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
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-06T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions actions: processes and functions adults Barnes, Cissie bed bedroom domestic furnishings individuals: female interiors morning named individuals objects people pillow portraits reclining sleeping times of the day woman