Dame Ethel Walker: Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa
Dame Ethel Walker: Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa
Dame Ethel Walker: Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa
Dame Ethel Walker: Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa
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Dame Ethel Walker

Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa, 1920

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About the artwork
Ethel Walker’s large scale painting is based on a passage in Book VI of Homer’s The Odyssey, which describes the princess Nausicaa taking her attendants to the river to wash everyone’s clothes, along with a picnic: ‘... they spread/The raiment orderly along the beach/Where dashing tides .../... leaving the garments, stretch'd/ In noon-day fervour of the sun, to dry.’ Other artists have made Odysseus the focal point of this scene, but Walker’s is entirely devoted to the women of the story, bathing and washing along the riverbank.

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  • Artist Dame Ethel Walker
  • Artwork Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa
  • Material FSC certified paper
  • Date of work 1920
  • Credit Original: Dame Ethel Walker Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa 1920 Oil paint on canvas 183.5 x 367 cm Tate. Purchased 1924

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dame Ethel Walker DBE ARA (1861 – 1951) was a Scottish painter, whose work included portraits, still lifes, landscapes, seascapes and mythical subjects. Born in Edinburgh, she moved to London for secondary school, and after studied art at the Ridley, Putney, Westminster, and Slade Schools of Art. Her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Arts and the Lefevre Gallery during her lifetime, and she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale four times in eight years. She was a member of the London Group of artists, and became best known for her works focusing on the female form. An openly lesbian artist, Walker celebrated female sexuality in many of her works. After her death aged 90, Tate held a major retrospective of her work with that of Frances Hodgkins and Gwen John, called Ethel Walker, Frances Hodgkins, Gwen John: A Memorial Exhibition, 1951. Tate holds a number of her works in the collection.
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