'Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden', Charles Mahoney | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Charles Mahoney (1903‑1968)

Title

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Date exhibited 1936

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 914 x 762 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1942

Reference

N05323

Not on display

Display caption

The Garden of Eden is here reinstated as a horticultural fantasy, defined by its relationship with an unseen domestic interior. Mahoney's image of perfection glimpsed from a window was created in the mid-1930s, when the idea of the garden was actually an accomplice of suburbanisation.

May 2003

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