Stanislawa De Karlowska

Swiss Cottage

exhibited 1914

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Artist
Stanislawa De Karlowska 1876–1952
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 609 x 765 x 17 mm
frame: 788 x 940 x 90 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the artist's family 1954
Reference
N06239

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Although De Karlowska’s husband Robert Bevan was a founder-member of the Camden Town Group, as a woman, De Karlowska was excluded. She exhibited instead in the more liberal areas of London's contemporary art scene such as the Allied Artists Exhibitions, where this painting was shown in 1914. As in Fried Fish Shop, also on show here, in Swiss Cottage De Karlowska addresses the question that was absorbing many artists - how to depict the modern city. Departing radically from artistic tradition, she uses non-naturalistic colour and the deliberate naivety of primitivism, the deliberate naivety drawn from ‘primitive art’ that fascinated early twentieth-century artists.

Gallery label, February 2010

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Camden Town Group

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