abstract art | time | wine | goblet | Neolithic | still life | food | transparent | sculpture | pedestal | geometric abstraction | drinking glasses | landscape | wine glass
Associated Places:
England | Cornwall | Saint Ives | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : St Ives Abstraction (Yale Center for British Art, 2013-04-12 - 2013-09-29)Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)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)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 17, cover, no. 42, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Exhibition at Durlacher Gallery, ART News, vol. 54, May 1955, p. 52, N1 +A6 Oversize (Haas)Gwithian, ART News, vol. 60, December 1961, p. 25, N1 +A6 Oversize (Haas) Also available at BeineckeGwithian, Burlington Magazine, vol. 103, December 1961, p. vi, N1 B87+ Oversize Also available on JSTORNorbert Lynton, Ben Nicholson, Phaidon, London, 1993, pp. 290-91, no. 2777, NJ18 N51 L95 1993 (YCBA)Julia Marciari-Alexander, This other Eden : Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1998, pp. 20,21,194-95, no. 81, fig. 19, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)May 1955 ( Gwithian ), Modern Painters, vol. 20, no. 7, September 2008, p. 64, ND468 +M57 Oversize (YCBA)May 1955 : Gwithian, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 128,no.1003, October 1986, cover, N1 B87 + (YCBA)John McDonald, A Feast of Mellon, Sydney Morning Herald, May 9, 1998, p. 14, Film An Sy25 (SML) Also Available Online (Factiva database)Paintings, reliefs, drawings, With an introduction by Herbert Read , Lund Humphries, London, 1955, pl. 134, J18 N51 +948R Oversize (LSF)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)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, cover, p. 17, no. 42, cover, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Sotheby's sale catalogue : Modern British drawings, paintings and sculpture ... the property of Mrs. Mary Keene ... : 13 December 1961, Sotheby's, Sotheby's, London, December 13, 1961, p. 49, lot no. 224, Film B12, Part IV, Reel 67 (YCBA)St Ives abstraction, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2013, p. 22, V 2475 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
During Ben Nicholson’s second decade at St. Ives, in the later 1940s and 1950s, he produced a group of still-life paintings that rank among his most important works. This particularly fine example was painted in 1955 and develops concerns he had been engaging with since the early 1930s: fusing abstract sculptural or architectonic qualities with a commitment to representation, especially the still-life tradition. Gwithian is a village, a few miles east of St. Ives, where some of the earliest Neolithic remains in Cornwall have been found. The title suggests not only Nicholson’s immediate sense of place in Cornwall but also a feeling for the timelessness of art.\n\n Gallery Label for installation of YCBA collection, 2020