Catalogue entry
N05668 THE ZONE OF LOVE: DECORATION c. 1930–2
Inscr. ‘Ethel Walker’ b.l.
Canvas, 96 1/2×97 (245×246·5).
Presented by the artist 1946.
Exh: R.A., 1932 (436); International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, October–December 1933 (149, repr. pl.70); Mural Decorative Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, May–June 1935 (25); Wildenstein, November–December 1936 (12); R.A., 1942 (181); N.E.A.C., February–March 1945 (269).
Lit: Mary Chamot, ‘Ethel Walker’ in Apollo, XIII, 1931, p.308; Mary Chamot, Modern Painting in England, 1937, p.63; John Rothenstein, Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith, 1952, p.84.
The artist stated about 1931 that this idyllic subject had been in her mind as a companion to N05669 for over fifteen years before she felt in the mood to complete it… (read more)
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