Artwork Title: Still Life

Still Life, 1929

Frances Mary Hodgkins

The artist gave this drawing to Arthur Howell as a birthday present (though his birthday was on 28 May) and he presented it later to Miss Harmston, who was his secretary at the St George's Gallery and later his executrix. Arthur Howell (1881–1956), who first met the artist in the autumn of 1927 and arranged an exhibition of her work at his Gallery, the St George's, 32A George Street, Hanover Square, in October 1930, has described his association with her in Frances Hodgkins, Four Vital Years, 1951. Miss Harmston does not know where the drawing was done and adds (letter of 1 February 1958): ‘so much came out of her own imaginative mind, with recollections of scenes, no doubt’. She was fond of combining still life with landscape. (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hodgkins-still-life-t00163)
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