'The Window, Chiswick', Mary Potter

Artwork details

Artist

Mary Potter (1900‑1981)

Title

The Window, Chiswick

Date 1929

MediumOil paint on canvas

Dimensionssupport: 764 x 552 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased with funds provided by the Helena and Kenneth Levy Bequest 1990

Reference

T05834

Not on display

Display caption

Potter was an early member of the Seven and Five Society, a group of artists formed in 1919 whose members included at various times John Piper, Ivon Hitchens and Ben and Winfred Nicholson. Classic Seven and Five work is characterised by clear colours, an interest in light, and a certain freshness and simplicity. Their direct and strong compositions often involved still life, sometimes combined with landscape seen through a window. This is a typical example in which a table-top still life is set against a curtained window looking out onto a view of the river Thames, near Chiswick. The view is from her own sitting-room.

August 2004