Oil paint on canvas
Tate Modern
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alvaro-guevara-1226" aria-label="More by Alvaro Guevara" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Alvaro Guevara</a>
Dame Edith Sitwell
Presented by Lord Duveen, Walter Taylor and George Eumorfopoulos through the Art Fund 1920
actions: postures and motions
adults
chair
cushion
domestic
fine arts and music
furnishings
individuals: female
interiors
literary
living room
named groups
named individuals
objects
Omega Workshops
people
picture
poet
portraits
rug
sitting
Sitwell, Edith
woman
work and occupations
<p>The sitter, Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was the daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, and sister of Sir Osbert and Sachaverell Sitwell. She was a poet and at the time of this portrait she was editor of 'Wheels', an annual anthology of new poetry published between 1916 and 1921. Edith Sitwell is seated on an Omega Workshops dining chair, a modern piece of furniture designed by the painter and art critic Roger Fry, who ran his decorative arts venture, the Omega Workshops, from 33 Fitzroy Square, London, in the heart of Bloomsbury. Both Edith Sitwell and Alvaro Guevara patronised the Omega Workshops.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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 April 2017 – 1 October 2017
2017-10-01
5 April 2017 – 1 October 2017
2017-10-01
2017-04-05
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2017-04-05
Queer British Art
Exhibition
10 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
10 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
2018-04-29
2018-02-10
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2018-02-10
Omega
Collection based display
Dame Edith Sitwell
support: 1829 × 1219 mm
Presented by Lord Duveen, Walter Taylor and George Eumorfopoulos through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1920
<p>The sitter, Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was the  daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, and  sister of Sir Osbert and Sachaverell Sitwell. She  was a poet and at the time of 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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> she  was editor of 'Wheels', an annual anthology of new  poetry published between 1916 and 1921. Edith  Sitwell is seated on an Omega Workshops dining  chair, a modern piece of furniture designed by the  painter and art critic Roger Fry, who ran his  decorative arts venture, the Omega Workshops, from  33 Fitzroy Square, London, in the heart of  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/b/bloomsbury" title="Glossary definition for 'Bloomsbury '"><span>Bloomsbury</span></a>. Both Edith Sitwell and Alvaro Guevara  patronised the Omega Workshops.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guevara-dame-edith-sitwell-n03509" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03509</span></a> </b>DAME EDITH SITWELL <i>c.</i> 1919
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<br/>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 72×48 (183×122).
<br/>Presented by Lord Duveen, Walter Taylor, and George Eumorfopoulos through the National Art-Collections Fund 1920.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> International Society, October 1919 (37), as ‘The Editor of Wheels’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Allan Gwynne-Jones, <i>Portrait Painters</i>, 1950, pp.36–7, repr. pl.144.</p>
<p>Dame Edith Sitwell, poet and critic, born in 1887, daughter of Sir George Sitwell, 4th Bt., and sister of Sir Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, was editor of <i>Wheels</i>, an annual anthology of modern verse published in 1916, 1917, 1918 and 1921; she was created D.B.E., 1954. See also Wyndham Lewis, <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lewis-edith-sitwell-n05437" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05437</span></a>.</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
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults chair cushion domestic fine arts and music furnishings individuals: female interiors literary living room named groups named individuals objects Omega Workshops people picture poet portraits rug sitting Sitwell, Edith woman work and occupations