Gate to the Isles
Winifred Nicholson (Oxford 1893 - Cumbria 1981)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1913 - 1981
Materials
Coloured lithograph on paper
Measurements
115 x 165 mm
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Greenway, Devon
NT 122001
Summary
Watercolour or coloured lithograph? on paper, Gate to the Isles by Winifred Nicholson (Oxford 1893 - Cumbria 1981). A landscape with blue gate in fence looking out to sea. Removed from frame 1.2.2008. Frame discarded.
Provenance
Given with Greenway to the National Trust by Mrs Rosalind Hicks (1919 - 2004), Anthony Hicks (d. 2005) and Mathew Prichard in 2006
Marks and inscriptions
GATE TO THE ISLES, 1980. Winifred Nicholson 1893 - 1981. From her home in Cumbria, Winifred Nicholson often visited the Hebrides to paint, where she loved the sight of the sky and sea. She painted this lovely picture in 1980 aged 87, when she again went to the Isle of Eigg, and the cottage where she stayed looked out North-East to the Sound of Sleat and east to the hills of Morar on the mainland. 25727. Verso Image- Winifred Nicholson (1893 - 1981)/ Gate to the Isles (The Blue Gate)/ Published by Artists' cards, London c. No cc 58. Printed in England
Makers and roles
Winifred Nicholson (Oxford 1893 - Cumbria 1981), artist