- Artist
- Sir Cedric Morris, Bt 1889–1982
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1003 × 746 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1981
- Reference
- T03232
Catalogue entry
T03232 DAVID AND BARBARA CARR c.1940
Not inscribed
Oil on canvas, 39 1/2 × 29 5/16 (100.3 × 74.5)
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
Exh: Sir Cedric Morris Portraits 1919–1974, The Minories, Colchester, October–November 1974 (30); Cedric Morris, Tate Gallery, March–May 1984 (68, repr.) and tour to Barnard Castle, Cardiff and Colchester
Cedric Morris painted two portraits of David Carr. The other (oil on canvas, 21 × 17in., private collection) is inscribed on the reverse ‘-41 CM’. As in the Tate's painting David Carr is wearing a fisherman's jersey and is shown in three-quarter profile, head and shoulders only, but looking in the opposite direction.
Barbara Carr has always painted under her maiden name, Barbara Gilligan. She had an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in 1948. She became a student at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing when it was at Dedham. She first met David Carr just before the School moved to Benton End and confirms that both pictures were painted there from life. She and David Carr married towards the end of the war; although the Tate's painting is earlier than this, the title given by Cedric Morris has been retained.
The painter and sculptor David Carr was born in 1915. In 1956 he was a co-founder of the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society. He died in 1968 and had a posthumous exhibition at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, in March 1969 (reviewed Art International, XIII/5, 20 May 1969, page 38. His late work is also described and illustrated in Brian Reade, ‘Space Mid-Manhattan’, in Art and Artists, IV, November 1969, pp.34–5). Appreciations of David Carr are published in the catalogue of his memorial retrospective at the Castle Museum, Norwich, January 1972.
Barbara Carr considers that while both Morris's portraits of David Carr are admirable paintings they are unusual among Morris's portraits in giving a false idea of the personality of the sitter.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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