Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Ginner, 1878–1952, British
Title:
The Fruit Stall, King's Cross
Date:
1914
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 3/4 x 22 inches (65.4 x 55.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower right: "C Ginner"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B1980.18
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
selling | stalls (mercantile structures) | storefronts | square | texture | women | food | barrels (containers) | cobblestones | cityscape | men | fruit | streets | color | child | crates | costume | buildings | genre subject | market (event)
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Greater London | London | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)

Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03)

20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)

This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)

The Camden Group (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-04-16 - 1980-06-29)
Publications:
Wendy Baron, The Camden Town Group, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, p. 33, no. 46, fig. 46, ND468.5 C35 B371 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 104-105, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, p. 180, no. 74, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Trained in Paris, first as an architect and later as a painter, Charles Ginner was particularly suited to the pictorial exploration of London’s streets and squares, a subject he pursued with increasing commitment from 1912 on. He, with his fellow Camden Town painter Harold Gilman, regarded his narratives as examples of “Neo-Realism,” a highly individualized stylistic philosophy that interpreted subjects “nearest our hearts, i.e., Life in all its effects, moods and developments.” Here, the small, regular touches of thick paint, reminiscent of densely worked embroidery, give an unexpected substance and weight to the mountains of vibrantly colored fruit, to the haphazardly hung awnings above, and to the precariously placed wooden crates below. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5020