Winifred NICHOLSON (1893 – 1981)
The Sycamore, 1922
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches / 76.2 x 61 cm
Signed, titled and dated verso
Provenance:
Private Collection,
Ex Collection, E J Hooper
Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Private Collection, Cambridge purchased from the above 2001
Exhibited:
Winifred Nicholson: Paintings 1900-1978, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, September - October 1979, travelled to Carlisle Art Gallery, November 1979, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, December 1979, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, January - February 1980, The Minories, Colchester, February - March 1980, Penwith Gallery, St. Ives, March - April 1980 (16); [Judith Collins (ed.)
Literature:
Winifred Nicholson Paintings, 1900 – 1978, Third Eye Centre, 1970-80, p.30
The Sycamore was painted while Winifred was staying at Mallerstang, near Kirby Stephen on a painting trip with Ben and Winifred friend, EJ Jenkinson, know as Eejay.
Would you like Westmorland yourself? It is fun to go to a place where everything is good to do, and where you don't have to hunt about, don't you think? Kikby Stephen looks wonderful from the railway.
Winifred Nicholson, letter to EJ Jenkinson, 12 May 1922