Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) front right (in front of Harry Bates (1850-1899) - Pandora (1891)), Tate Britain, Sep 2010
Yet another previously unreleased view. I know I keep (ahem) harping on Edward Onslow Ford, but this is definitely one of my all-time favourites.
JULY 2015: The Singer has been returned to public display at the Walk Through British Art: 1890 Room, close to Applause, but annoyingly sharing no meaningful spatial relationship with it. Following the closure of the Sculpture Victorious exhibition at the Tate, Pandora has indeed once more disappeared into the vaults.
LATE OCTOBER 2014: The Singer, Pandora and other works from the Tate have been loaned to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, for an exhibition called Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901 [In case anyone doesn't get it, those dates coincide with Victoria's reign], running Thursday, September 11, 2014–Sunday, November 30, 2014. The exhibition will then recross the Atlantic back to the Tate in spring 2015. The bad news: if it's a paid exhibition photography will be banned, and there's still no telling whether these lovely ladies will be given a permanent display after that or just disappear into the vaults again. Ugh.
Edward Onslow Ford (1852-1901) - The Singer (1889) front right (in front of Harry Bates (1850-1899) - Pandora (1891)), Tate Britain, Sep 2010
Yet another previously unreleased view. I know I keep (ahem) harping on Edward Onslow Ford, but this is definitely one of my all-time favourites.
JULY 2015: The Singer has been returned to public display at the Walk Through British Art: 1890 Room, close to Applause, but annoyingly sharing no meaningful spatial relationship with it. Following the closure of the Sculpture Victorious exhibition at the Tate, Pandora has indeed once more disappeared into the vaults.
LATE OCTOBER 2014: The Singer, Pandora and other works from the Tate have been loaned to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, for an exhibition called Sculpture Victorious: Art in an Age of Invention, 1837–1901 [In case anyone doesn't get it, those dates coincide with Victoria's reign], running Thursday, September 11, 2014–Sunday, November 30, 2014. The exhibition will then recross the Atlantic back to the Tate in spring 2015. The bad news: if it's a paid exhibition photography will be banned, and there's still no telling whether these lovely ladies will be given a permanent display after that or just disappear into the vaults again. Ugh.