Oil paint on canvas
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Green Balcony
Presented by Miss Christina M. Rivington 1928
architecture
balcony
bridge
bridges and viaducts
chair
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
furnishings
objects
places
Richmond, Richmond Bridge
river
Surrey
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK London
water: inland
<p>Pickard was 30 years old when she finally overcame her family’s resistance to her choice of career and enrolled at the Slade School of Art. She later trained in Paris. By the end of the first world war she had became a conspicuous exhibitor at the New English Art Club, along with Walker, Sands and others. Her work reflects what critic D.S. MacColl tartly called ‘a field surrendered to [women artists] by the men of their generation’, often repeating subjects (she could rarely afford models) drawn from her immediate surroundings.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
9 October 2009 – 23 February 2010
2010-02-23
2009-10-09
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2009-10-09
Independently Modern
Collection based display
The Green Balcony
support: 635 × 762 mm
Presented by Miss Christina M. Rivington 1928
<p>Pickard was 30 years old when she finally overcame her family’s resistance to her choice of career and enrolled at the Slade School of Art.  She later trained in Paris. By the end of the first world war she had became a conspicuous exhibitor at the New English Art Club, along with Walker, Sands and others. Her work reflects what critic D.S. MacColl tartly called ‘a field surrendered to [women artists] by the men of their generation’, often repeating subjects (she could rarely afford models) drawn from her immediate surroundings.  
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Display caption
2010-02-18T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N04426</b> THE GREEN BALCONY <i>c.</i> 1927</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 25×30 (63·5×76·5).
<br/>Presented by Miss Christina M. Rivington 1928.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Miss Rivington, purchased at the Alpine Club Gallery 1928.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Alpine Club Gallery, October 1928 (78).</p>
<p>According to the artist's niece, Miss I. M. Thompson, ‘“The Green Balcony” I feel certain must have been painted from the balcony at Rodney House, Richmond, where she spent the last year of her life.... This must have been painted about 1927’ (letter of 27 July 1961). Richmond Bridge also appears in a number of other pictures by the artist, including one belonging to Miss Thompson.</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
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture balcony bridge bridges and viaducts chair England England, South East England, Southern features furnishings objects places Richmond, Richmond Bridge river Surrey UK counties UK countries and regions UK London water: inland