'Farm at Watendlath', Dora Carrington | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Dora Carrington (1893‑1932)

Title

Farm at Watendlath

Date 1921

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 611 x 669 mm frame: 774 x 830 x 58 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by Noel Carrington, the artist's brother 1987

Reference

T04945

On display at Tate Britain

Theme: BP Walk through British Art

Room: 1920

Display caption

During the period 1917-21 Carrington's subjects were mostly intimate portraits and landscapes. This painting depicts Watendlath Farm, near Keswick in the Lake District, where the newly-wed Carrington spent a summer holiday with her husband and their friends in 1921. Among the guests was her husband's friend Gerald Brenan, with whom she developed a mutual attraction. The identity of the two figures in white is not known. Throughout her work Carrington depicted women at different stages in their lives contemplating their own femininity… (read more)

September 2004

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