Dame Ethel Walker

Flowers in a Jug

c.1935–6

© Tate

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Not on display
Artist
Dame Ethel Walker 1861–1951
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Support: 610 x 508 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Miss Grace English 1957
Reference
T00128

Catalogue entry

T00128 FLOWERS IN A JUG c. 1935–6

Inscr. ‘Ethel Walker’ b.l. and ‘E.W.’ on back of stretcher.
Canvas, 24×20 (61×51).
Bequeathed by Miss Grace English 1957.
Coll: Purchased by Miss English from the artist 1936.

The painting probably dates from about 1935 or early 1936, and was done in the artist's cottage at Robin Hood's Bay. By 1936 the artist was preparing a frame for the picture.

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

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