Collection
Ethel Carrick
(England, Australia 07 Feb 1872–17 Jun 1952)
- Title
- Flower market, Nice
- Year
- circa 1926
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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60.0 x 73.0cm stretcher; 68.0 x 81.0 x 4.0cm frame:
57.5 x 70.5cm
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, brown oil "CARRICK-FOX". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1955
- Accession number
- 9118
- Location
- 20th & 21st c Australian art
- Further information
Ethel Carrick painted vivacious impressionist-influenced European landscapes, market scenes and flower pieces. After studying in London early in the 20th century, Carrick settled in Paris in 1905 where she became actively involved with women’s painting societies. She travelled extensively with her artist-husband, E Phillips Fox, in France, Italy, Northern Africa and Spain.
After Fox’s death in 1915, Carrick lived mostly abroad, travelling in Europe, painting in Majorca, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and India, and in the 1930s living in Kashmir. Her paintings commonly displayed an interest in figures, objects and her surrounding environment, rendered as patterns of colour and light, as shown in this painting, 'Flower market, Nice'.
- Bibliography (4)
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Deborah Edwards, Daphne Wallace, Margo Neale, Victoria Lynn and Sandra Byron, Review: works by women from the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales 1995, Domain, 1995.
Angela Goddard, Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox 2011, 'Modernity in motion: Ethel Carrick's crowds', pg. 79-80, Brisbane, 2011, 80 (colour illus.).
Elin Howe, Ethel Carrick Fox 1986, Sydney, 1986, 25, 26.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955 National Art Gallery of N.S.W. 1956, Sydney, 1956, 6. cat.no. 8
- Exhibition history (3)
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Purchases and Acquisitions for 1955, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 09 Feb 1956–29 Feb 1956
E. Carrick Fox retrospective (1979):
- Geelong Art Gallery 28 Mar 1979–04 May 1979
- S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 11 May 1979–03 Jun 1979
- University of Queensland Art Museum, St. Lucia 13 Jun 1979–05 Jul 1979
Art, love and life: Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, 16 Apr 2011–07 Aug 2011
