Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Harold Gilman, 1876–1919, British
Title:
Stanislawa de Karlowska
Date:
ca. 1913
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
24 5/16 × 20 1/4 inches (61.8 × 51.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.1.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
portrait | profile (figure) | wallpaper | brushstrokes | texture | stripes | patterns | contrast | painter | artist | impasto | woman
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)

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)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 8, 9, 14, no. 19, col. pl. 13, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Exhibition, Reid and Lefevre's, Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, vol. 83, October 1943, pp. 254, 256, pl. A, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Also available online in JSTOR

Harold Gilman 1876-1919., Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1981, pp. 22, 64, no. 45, NJ18 G3855 C38 (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. 178, no. 73, ND1314.3 Y36 1998 (YCBA)

Minories, The R.A. Bevan collection, Colchester, 1975, no. 69, NJ18 B4693 M55 (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)

K. Roberts, Exhibition at Reid Gallery, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 106,no.734, May 1964, p. 244, fig. 76, N1 B87+ (YCBA) Alzo available online in JSTOR

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 8, 9, 14, no. 19, color pl, 13, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Shorter Notes : Harold Gilman 1878-1919, Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 83,no.487, October 1943, pp. 254,256, Pl. A, N1 B87+ OVERSIZE YCBA) Also available online at JSTOR

Two memorial Exhibitions, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, vol. 128, no. 3337, October 11, 1919, p. 335, Available online in British Periodicals II Also available A88 Sa8 + Oversize (SML)
Gallery Label:
In 1914 Karlowska was one of the few women artists to be elected an original member of the London Group, an offshoot of the Camden Town Group to which Harold Gilman and Robert Bevan belonged. Karlowska exhibited regularly under her name and had a solo show at the Adams Gallery in 1935. Despite her accomplishments and the endurance she displayed in being a woman artist at the time, Karlowksa’s career was overshadowed by that of her husband, Robert Bevan, a good friend of Gilman’s. --- In this painting, Gilman slots Karlowska into a flat mosaic of vibrant color. The space is compressed, fusing Karlowska firmly with the dancing wallpaper. She is asphyxiated: the air of the painting is sucked out and replaced by viscous blobs of paint. To counter the loud color and flamboyant mark-making, Karlowska sits quietly and resolutely, fighting her silent battle in what is often characterized as the polite “British” way. Gallery label for Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5058