In the Studio
Free- Artist
- Dod Procter 1892–1972
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 1524 mm
frame: 1072 × 1832 × 73 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Daily Mail 1927
- Reference
- N04270
Catalogue entry
N04270 MORNING 1926
Inscr. ‘Dod Procter 1926’ b.r.
Canvas, 30×60 (76×152·5).
Presented by the Daily Mail 1927.
Exh:
R.A., 1927 (735).
Lit: Frank Rutter, Sunday Times, 1 May 1927; Mary Chamot, ‘Ernest and Dod Procter’ in Apollo, VI, 1927, pp.251–2; Dame Laura Knight, Oil Paint and Grease Paint, 1936, pp.284–5.
Repr: Royal Academy Illustrated, 1927, p.85; Studio, XCIII, 1927, p.423; Hesketh Hubbard, A Hundred Years of British Painting 1851–1951, 1951, pl.44.
‘Morning’ received almost unanimous praise from the art critics on the opening of the R.A. and was acclaimed ‘the picture of the year’. Immediately following the announcement of the proposed gift to the nation on 3 May 1927 numerous applications poured into the Daily Mail from provincial galleries eager to obtain the loan of the picture.
The model, sixteen-year-old Miss Cissie Barnes, daughter of a fish merchant of Newlyn, posed for Mrs Procter almost every day for five weeks (Daily Mail report, 4 May 1927). A variation on the same theme is ‘Sleeping Girl’, which was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in December 1927 (13; repr. Apollo, VI, 1927, p.252), but this only shows the head and arms of the model. Miss Cissie Barnes was also model for a number of other paintings by Dod Procter.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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