Dame Ethel Walker

Self-Portrait

?exhibited 1930

Not on display

Artist: Dame Ethel Walker 1861–1951
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions: Support: 635 × 765 mm
frame: 814 × 943 × 80 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by Major E.O. Kay 1951
Reference: N06006

Catalogue entry

N06006 SELF-PORTRAIT (?) c. 1930

Not inscribed.

Canvas, 25×30 1/8 (64×76·5).

Presented by Major E. O. Kay 1951.

Exh: (?) N.E.A.C., winter 1930 (140); Venice Biennale, 1932 (British Pavilion, 128); R.B.A. Galleries, December 1939 (135); Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John, Tate Gallery, May–June 1952 (8), and Arts Council tour, 1952 (8).

As Ethel Walker made several self-portraits it is uncertain whether this was the one exhibited at the New English Art Club in 1930.

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

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