Oil paint on board
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/james-fitton-1099" aria-label="More by James Fitton" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">James Fitton</a>
Frying Tonight
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1954
<p>James Fitton was a founding member of the left-wing Artists’ International Association. He made his reputation as a political cartoonist for Left Review during the 1930s. With his colleagues James Boswell and James Holland, he was credited with the revival of a British tradition of political satire established in the eighteenth century by such figures as James Gillray.</p><p>Fitton’s post-war paintings often show public dining rooms of some sort, and demonstrate a gentler form of witty social satire. Frying Tonight is a typical example.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint board
16 December 2002 – 12 October 2003
2003-10-12
16 December 2002 – 12 October 2003
2003-10-12
2002-12-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-12-16
Post War Realism 1940s-1950s
Collection based display
Frying Tonight
support: 775 × 1041 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> 1954
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<span class="text0">James Fitton was a founding member  of the left-wing      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/artists-international-association" title="Glossary definition for 'Artists International Association'"><span>Artists’ International Association</span></a>. He made his reputation  as a      political cartoonist for </span><span class="text17">Left Review</span><span class="text0"> during the 1930s. With his colleagues James Boswell and      James Holland, he was credited with the revival of a British tradition of      political satire established  in the eighteenth century by such  figures as      James Gillray.  </span>
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<span class="text0">Fitton’s post-war <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> often show public      dining rooms of some sort, and </span><span class="text16">demonstrate a      gentler form of witty social satire. </span><span class="text15">Frying      Tonight</span><span class="text16"> is a typical example.</span><span class="text0">
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<p><b>N06219</b> FRYING TONIGHT 1954
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Fitton.’ b.r.
<br/>Oil on hardboard, 30 1/2×41 (77×104).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1954.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1954 (112).
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Illustrated</i>, 1954, p.23; <i>Studio</i>, CLII, 1956, p.72.</p>
<p>Painted from <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and observations made around Brixton in 1954.</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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