Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
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Chantrey Bequest
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alfred-r-thomson-2036" aria-label="More by Alfred R. Thomson" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Alfred R. Thomson</a>
Sister Fry
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
actions: expressive
actions: postures and motions
adults
arms folded
badge
chair
clothing and personal items
Fry, Norah Ellen, Sister
furnishings
individuals: female
medical
midwife
named individuals
objects
people
portraits
sitting
smiling
uniform / kit
woman
work and occupations
painting oil paint canvas
Sister Fry
support: 762 × 635 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> 1940
<p><b>N05107</b> SISTER FRY 1939
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<p>Inscr. ‘A. R. Thomson’ 39' b.l. and ‘Sister Fry’ in pencil t.r.
<br/>Canvas, 30×25 (76×63·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.</p>
<p><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1939 (234), as ‘Sister Fry’; <i>United Artists</i>, R.A., January–March 1940 (814), as ‘The Sister’.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Country Life</i>, 13 January 1940, p.46.</p>
<p>A <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 Miss Norah Ellen Fry, the midwife who attended the artist's wife's first confinement in 1939. Sister Fry would be about twenty-nine or thirty years of age at the time of 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>; the badge she is wearing shows that she trained at the Royal Hospital, Richmond, where she was a student from 1930 to 1933.</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
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: expressive actions: postures and motions adults arms folded badge chair clothing and personal items Fry, Norah Ellen, Sister furnishings individuals: female medical midwife named individuals objects people portraits sitting smiling uniform / kit woman work and occupations