SICKERT TO GERTLER - MODERN BRITISH ART FROM BOXTED HOUSE

From: Saturday 15 March 2008  To: Sunday 22 June 2008

FROM SICKERT TO GERTLER:
MODERN BRITISH ART FROM BOXTED HOUSE
15 March - 22 June 2008
SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Belford Road, Edinburgh
Admission free

This exhibition will celebrate the lives of Bobby and Natalie Bevan and the collection of artworks that hung in their home, Boxted House in Essex, which became a gathering place for artists after the Second World War. It will include some outstanding examples of twentieth-century British art, as well as more unusual and private works, and archival material from the period 1894-1970. The Bevans lived at Boxted House from 1946 until 1974. Bobby (1901-74) was the son of the artists Robert Bevan (1865-1925) and Stanislawa de Karlowska (1876-1952) and was Chairman of the leading advertising agency S H Benson Ltd. The painter and ceramicist Natalie Denny (1909-2007), a renowned beauty and hostess, also modelled for artists such as Mark Gertler. Bobby and Natalie married in 1946. Together they created an exceptional home at Boxted. Paintings by Bobby's parents and their friends, such as Walter Sickert, Harold Gilman and Charles Ginner, hung beside works by Bobby and Natalie's own friends, including Christopher Nevinson, John Armstrong and Frederick Gore. The house became a gathering place for artists, particularly for those associated with East Anglia, such as John Nash, Cedric Morris and Lett Haines. This exhibition will celebrate the colourful character of Boxted House, its hosts, its guests and the works of art which filled its walls.

For further information, see the National Galleries of Scotland website.

Mark Gertler,
Supper (Natalie Denny), 1928
©Tate, London and the estate of Mark Gertler

Robert Bevan,
Gravelye Farm, Cuckfield, c.1911

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
© Keith Hunter Photograph