Walter Richard Sickert

Miss Earhart’s Arrival

1932

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Artist: Walter Richard Sickert 1860–1942
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 717 x 1832 mm
frame: 865 x 1987 x 60 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1982
Reference: T03360

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Amelia Earhart (1898-1937) was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She landed in northern Ireland in May 1932, but this depicts her arrival in a thunderstorm at Hanworth, near London, the following day, where she was greeted by crowds of spectators. Earhart can be glimpsed in the middle distance of the right-hand side of the picture. Sickert based this painting on a newspaper photograph, from which he squared up the image. It took him only five days to complete, and itself aroused much public interest when it was exhibited soon afterwards.

Gallery label, August 2004

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