Mrs Box

Dora Carrington (1893 - 1932)

Cecil Higgins Art Gallery CLOSED

1919

Carrington met Mrs Box, a farmer's wife, while on holiday at Welcombe in Cornwall and this portrait gives an honest depiction of a Cornish working woman. Carrington attended the Girl's Grammar School in Beford and it was here that she excelled in art which prompted her parents to permit her to enrol at the Slade School of Art.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 91.4 x 76.2cm
• Art Fund Grant: £7500 ( Total: £25,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2005
• Vendor: Christopher Mason

Provenance

Joanna Carrington (Mason), Dora Carrington's niece; by descent to Christopher Mason.

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