Research Catalog

Title

A singular vision : Dod Procter 1890-1972 / Alison James.

Author

James, Alison, 1960-

Publication

Bristol : Sansom & Company, in association with Penlee House Gallery & Museum 2007.

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Additional Authors

Penlee House Gallery & Museum.

Description

144 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.); 27 cm.

Summary

"For a period in the 1920s Dod Procter was perhaps the most famous artist in Britain. Her painting of a reclining young woman, Morning, caught the public imagination when the Daily Mail purchased it 'for the nation' from the Royal Academy annual show in 1927." "Monumental figure paintings and sympathetic studies of the female form, from babies to young women, would be defining elements of her life's work. But her unflinching nude paintings of pubescent girls proved problematical during her lifetime and are still controversial today." "As a teenage girl in 1907, Dod studied at the Forbes School of Painting, in Newlyn, where she met her future husband, Ernest Procter. The author of a Singular Vision sets their marriage against the background of having to paint for a living, a commission which took them to Burma and their return to Newlyn, where Dod enjoyed many artistic friendships. After Ernest's early death in 1935, she travelled widely to Tenerife, the West Indies and Africa. The tender and exquisite portraits of the local children she painted on these trips were later to fall foul of post-colonial sensitivities. She always returned to Newlyn, where she lived and painted for the rest of her life." "The fame, even notoriety, of her nude studies have tended to obscure the importance of Dod's other great pre-occupation - the painting of still lifes. Drawing on the flora in and around her Newlyn cottage, she painted exquisite flower studies, many of which are reproduced in this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

• Dod Procter 1890-1972.
• Dod Procter 1890-1972

Subject

• Procter, Dod, 1892-1972 > Exhibitions
• 1900-1999
• Painting, English > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition, Dod Procter: a singular vision, at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, [15 September - 24th November, 2007].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-140) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Hampstead and Tavistock -- 2. Newlyn -- 3. Courtship -- 4. War Years -- 5. Burma -- 6. Acclaim -- 7. Gain and Loss -- 8. Change and Travel -- 9. Retrospective.

ISBN

• 9781904537786 (pbk.)
• 1904537782 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 181067924
• SCSB-10111492

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library