- Artist
- Alfred R. Thomson 1894–1979
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 762 × 635 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
- Reference
- N05107
Catalogue entry
N05107 SISTER FRY 1939
Inscr. ‘A. R. Thomson’ 39' b.l. and ‘Sister Fry’ in pencil t.r.
Canvas, 30×25 (76×63·5).
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
Exh: R.A., 1939 (234), as ‘Sister Fry’; United Artists, R.A., January–March 1940 (814), as ‘The Sister’.
Repr: Country Life, 13 January 1940, p.46.
A portrait of Miss Norah Ellen Fry, the midwife who attended the artist's wife's first confinement in 1939. Sister Fry would be about twenty-nine or thirty years of age at the time of the portrait; the badge she is wearing shows that she trained at the Royal Hospital, Richmond, where she was a student from 1930 to 1933.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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