Alfred R. Thomson

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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