'East Coast Window', Mary Potter | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Mary Potter (1900‑1981)

Title

East Coast Window

Date exhibited 1959

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 737 x 914 mm frame: 847 x 1040 x 77 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1963

Reference

T00584

Not on display

Display caption

Mary Attenborough studied at the Slade School of Art from 1918-21 and married the writer Stephen Potter in 1927. During the 1930s they lived at Chiswick where she painted views of the river. In 1951 they moved to the Red House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, selling it in 1957 to Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Mary Potter then lived in Crag House on the Aldeburgh sea front while a studio was built for her in the Red House garden. This is a view from Crag House, painted in Potter's distinctive pale and delicate colours.

August 1999

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