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Winter Garden
Purchased 1940
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<p>Dunbar's parents lived at Strood near Rochester in Kent and this picture is a record of their garden. Between 1929 and 1933 the artist attended Rochester Art School, Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London and remembered that this painting was begun before arriving in London as an art student and finished off around 1937. In that same year Dunbar wrote and illustrated the book 'Gardeners' Choice', along with the painter Charles Mahoney, who had been her teacher at the Royal College. Dunbar also executed murals at Brockley School, near Lewisham in the mid 1930s and was an Official War Artist during the Second World War.This painting was chosen by Eleanor Bron.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
3 June 2004 – 15 May 2005
2005-05-15
3 June 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
2004-06-03
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
1 October 2004 – 6 February 2005
2005-02-06
2004-10-01
Ulster Museum (Belfast, UK)
http://www.ulstermuseum.org.uk
15 March 2005 – 15 May 2005
2005-05-15
2005-03-15
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
2004-06-03
Art of the Garden
Exhibition
9 September 2006 – 18 November 2006
2006-11-18
9 September 2006 – 18 November 2006
2006-11-18
2006-09-09
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2006-09-09
Evelyn Dunbar 1906-60
Loan-out
27 July 2013 – 5 October 2013
2013-10-05
27 July 2013 – 5 October 2013
2013-10-05
2013-07-27
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2013-07-27
Under the Greenwood
Loan-out
11 September 2020 – 9 January 2021
2021-01-09
11 September 2020 – 9 January 2021
2021-01-09
2020-09-11
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2020-09-11
The Seasons
Loan-out
16 September 2023 – 13 January 2024
2024-01-13
16 September 2023 – 13 January 2024
2024-01-13
2023-09-16
St Barbe Museum (Lymington, UK)
http://www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/
2023-09-16
Parallel Lives: Nine Women Artists
Loan-out
Winter Garden
support: 305 × 914 mm
frame: 383 × 995 × 54 mm
Purchased 1940
<p>Dunbar's parents lived at Strood near Rochester in Kent and this picture is a record of their garden. Between 1929 and 1933 the artist attended Rochester Art School, Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London and remembered that 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/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> was begun before arriving in London as an art student and finished off around 1937. In that same year Dunbar wrote and illustrated the book 'Gardeners' Choice', along with the painter Charles Mahoney, who had been her teacher at the Royal College. Dunbar also executed murals at Brockley School, near Lewisham in the mid 1930s and was an Official <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/war-artists" title="Glossary definition for 'War Artists'"><span>War Artist</span></a> during the Second World War.<br/>This painting was chosen by Eleanor Bron.</p>
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2004-09-02T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05212</b> WINTER GARDEN <i>c.</i> 1929–37
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Evelyn Dunbar’ b.r.
<br/>Canvas, 12×36 (30×91).
<br/>Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i>
<i>Cross-Section of English Painting 1938</i>, Wildenstein, March–April 1938 (1).</p>
<p>The artist wrote (7 May 1956): ‘Begun before I came to London as a student, and finished later, about 1937. It was painted in the garden of my parents' home at Strood, Rochester, Kent.’</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</p>
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-21T00:00:00
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