Winifred NICHOLSON (1893 - 1981)
The Swaites, 1922
Oil on canvas
22 x 28 3/8 inches / 56 x 72 cm
Inscribed verso Swaites 1922, Winifred Nicholson, 10 Holland Park, London
Provenance:
The Estate of the artist
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Private Collection, London
Exhibited:
Campden Hill Club, 1923, no.20
Ben Nicholson: Still Life & Abstraction, The Scottish Arts Council, Touring Exhibition, Edinburgh, Stromness, Kirkcaldy and Aberdeen, no.24
Winifred Nicholson, Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to The Tate Gallery, 3 June - 2 Aug. 1987, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 15th August – 20th September 1987, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 26th September – 1st November 1987, Stoke City Art Gallery, Stoke, 7th November – 13th December 1987, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, 9th January – 31st January 1988, Kettles Yard, Cambridge 13th February – 20th March 1988, cat. No. 5, ill. in colour
A Painter’s Place, Bank’s Head, Cumberland 1924 - 1931: Tullie House, Carlisle, 17th August 1991 – 25th September 1991; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 5th October 1991 -30th November 1991; York City Art Gallery 14th December 1991 – 26th January 1992; Pallant House, Chichester, 7th February 1992 – 30th March 1992, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, 10th April 1992 – 12th June 1992, (illus. in colour p. 25, cat. no. 10)
Influence and Originality, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Winifred Nicholson, Landscapes c.1920 to c.1950, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 9th January – 10th March 1996, travelled to the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, 18th April – 23rd June 1996, (illus. colour p.21, cat. no. 41)
Winifred Nicholson, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 28 July – 23rd September 2001; Graves Art Gallery Sheffield, 6 Oct - 17 Nov 2001; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle 24 Nov 2001 - 13 Jan 2002, ill in cat. p 32
Literature:
Unknown Colour, compiled Andrew Nicholson, published by Faber & Faber, 1987, ill. in col. p.68
Winifred Nicholson, Music of Colour, Andrew Nairne, Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge, 2012, ill. in colour p. 59
The days are so long and lovely one hardly goes to bed. The ashes are very pale and only just out, the air is fragrant and ethereally clear, and so still that ant movement would break it like spun glass. The only sounds are the mating cries of the curlews. The earth is covered with sunlight and flowers, and so still and translucent like water.
Winifred Nicholson, Letter to Ben Nicholson, Boothby, 19th June 1925