Oil paint on board
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
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WindowSill Lugano
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940
agriculture, gardening & fishing
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
flower
hill
landscape
Lugano
mountain
objects
places
plant pot
plants and flowers
Switzerland
window
<p>Though the painting of flowers has been stereotyped as the preserve of women artists, Nicholson uses it here not as an expression of femininity, but as a pretext for experiments in technique. Like many progressive artists at this time she adopts a naïve or ‘primitive’ style in an attempt to unlearn traditional picture-making habits and generate a fresh vision of the subject. Nicholson innovatively combines the two genres of still life and landscape, aiming at personal expression through her use of space, shapes and colour</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint board
3 April 2006 – 18 December 2006
2006-12-18
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2006-04-03
Christopher Wood
Collection based display
19 May 2012 – 23 September 2012
2012-09-23
19 May 2012 – 23 September 2012
2012-09-23
2012-05-19
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2012-05-19
1928
Collection based display
17 May 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
17 May 2014 – 28 September 2014
2014-09-28
2014-05-17
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
24 October 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-10-24
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2014-05-17
International Exchanges: St Ives and Modern Art, 1915 - 1965
Exhibition
17 May 2014 – 31 January 2015
2015-01-31
1 October 2014 – 31 January 2015
2015-01-31
2014-10-01
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2014-05-17
International Exchanges: St Ives and Modern Art, 1915 - 1965
Loan-out
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
14 October 2017 – 31 January 2021
2021-01-31
2017-10-14
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/
2017-10-14
Modern Art and St Ives
Collection based display
Window-Sill, Lugano
support: 286 × 508 mm
frame: 345 × 584 × 55 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1940
<p>Though the painting of flowers has been stereotyped as the preserve of women artists,  Nicholson uses it here not as an expression of femininity, but as a pretext for experiments in technique.  Like many progressive artists at this time she adopts a naïve or ‘primitive’ style in an attempt to unlearn traditional picture-making habits and generate a fresh vision of the subject.  Nicholson innovatively combines the two genres of still life and landscape, aiming at personal expression through her use of space, shapes and colour</p>

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2010-02-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05126</b> WINDOW-SILL, LUGANO 1923</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Window Sill, Lugano Winifred Nicholson 1923’ on reverse.
<br/>Oil on cardboard, 11 1/4×20 (28·5×50·5).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1940.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Edward Marsh at the Paterson Gallery 1923 and presented to the C.A.S. 1927.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>Paintings by Benjamin Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson</i>, Paterson Gallery, May–June 1923 (? 31, as ‘Cineraria and Primula’); Venice Biennale, 1928 (British Pavilion, 101).
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<br/>Painted at the Villa Capriccio, Castagnola, Lugano, ‘with my fingers as the paint brushes were packed. We were moving home back to England’ (letter from the artist, 20 July 1958). Ben and Winifred Nicholson worked at Lugano for several winters in the early 1920s.
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<br/>According to the artist this work was purchased by Sir Edward Marsh at the 1923 Paterson Gallery exhibition, the catalogue of which includes a number of pictures of flowers, though none of the titles fit exactly.
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<br/><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
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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agriculture, gardening & fishing architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features flower hill landscape Lugano mountain objects places plant pot plants and flowers Switzerland window