Ethel Carrick

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Ethel Carrick
Ethel Carrick
Ethel Carrick, c.1912
Born(1872-02-07)February 7, 1872
Uxbridge, Middlesex, England
DiedJune 17, 1952(1952-06-17) (aged 80)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityBritish
Education
MovementImpressionism, Post-Impressionism
Spouse(s)Emanuel Phillips Fox

Ethel Carrick, later Ethel Carrick Fox (7 February 1872 – 17 June 1952) was an English Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter. Much of her career was spent in France and in Australia, where she was associated with the movement known as the Heidelberg School.

Life[]

Ethel Carrick was born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, to Emma (Filmer) Carrick and Albert William Carrick,[1] a wealthy draper.[2][3] The family of ten children lived at Brookfield House, Uxbridge.[4] She trained in London at the Guildhall School of Music and at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks (ca. 1898-1903).[3] She married the Australian Impressionist painter Emanuel Phillips Fox in 1905.[5] They moved to Paris, where they remained until 1913.[2] She travelled widely in Europe, North Africa, and the South Pacific (Tahiti) during this period and made trips to Australia in 1908 and 1913.[2]

The outbreak of World War I brought Carrick and her husband to Melbourne, Australia, where they did organizing work to raise war funds from artists and to support the French Red Cross.[2]

Emanuel died of cancer in 1915, and the following year Carrick began two decades of travels that took her through the Middle East, South Asia including India, and Europe.[2] She returned intermittently to Australia to exhibit her work and go out on painting expeditions around the country.[2] In the 1920s, she was recommended by the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris as a private teacher of still life painting, and she counted a number of Australians and Americans in Paris among her students.[3]

She died in Melbourne in 1952.

Art career and critical estimation[]

Paris. Flower market. 1907. National Gallery of Victoria
Untitled (Royal Avenue, Versailles), c.1909. Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum

Mainly a painter, Carrick is known for her flower paintings, landscapes and scenes of outdoor urban life in parks and on beaches. Some of these draw on her international travels, such as her paintings of outdoor markets in the Middle East and elsewhere.[2] In the 1920s, she began painting flower studies, which overall are more conventional than her earlier work.[3] In the 1930s, she created some lithographs, and during World War II, which she spent in Australia, she painted some scenes of women war workers.[3]

Carrick began as an Impressionist plein air painter but fairly quickly moved to a more Post-Impressionist style featuring blockier compositions and sharper color contrasts.[3] Some of the works produced around 1911-12 are distinctly Fauvist in their strong colors, high abstraction, and loose handling of the paint.[3] Her canvases of urban life tend to be dense with human activity and feature patches of vibrant color.

Carrick first showed her work in London in 1903.[2] She exhibited at the Paris Salon d'Automne from 1906 onwards, the London Royal Academy of Arts, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (from 1906 on), and various progressive galleries in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia (from 1908 on).[3][6] In addition to her own solo and group exhibitions, she was in dual shows with her husband at the Melbourne Athenaeum in 1914 and again in 1944.[3] In 1911, she became sociétaire of the Salon d'Automne, and she served as a jury member from 1912 to around 1925, both unusual positions for women to hold and marks of the high regard in which she was held by the Paris art world.[2][3] Prior to World War I, she also served as the vice-president of the International Union of Women Artists.[3] Late in her career, in the 1940s and 1950s, she exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.[3]

In her lifetime, Carrick's reputation was eclipsed by her husband's, in part because she spent a good deal of her time promoting his career rather than her own, lobbying Australian collectors and curators to buy his work and arranging exhibitions both while he was alive and posthumously.[2][3] In recent years, her reputation has been rising, and critics today consider her work more adventurous than that of her husband.[3][6] In 1996, one of her paintings set an auction record of A$105,500 for works by an Australian woman artist,[6] and the following year saw the publication of a biography, Ethel Carrick Fox: Travels and Triumphs of a Post-Impressionist by art historian Susanna de Vries.[7] Her Market Under Trees", sold by Sotheby's in 1999 for A$266,500, was bought at auction for just over A$1 million in 2008.[8]

In 1993, the Waverley City Gallery in Melbourne held the exhibition "Capturing the Orient: Hilda Rix Nicholas & Ethel Carrick in the East", and in 2011, the Queensland Art Gallery held a joint retrospective of the work of Carrick and her husband.[9]

Exhibitions[]

Solo[]

  • 1908 Bernard's Gallery, Collins Street, Melbourne, August[10][11][12][13]
  • 1913 'Paintings by Mrs E Phillips Fox (Miss Ethel Carrick)', The Guildhall, Melbourne, 11 - 26 July[14][15][16]
  • 1913 'Exhibition of Pictures by Mrs E Phillips Fox (Ethel Carrick)', Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, 6 - 22 November[17][18][19][20][21][22]
  • 1916 'Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Mrs E Phillips Fox', Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney, April
  • 1925 'Exhibition of Paintings by Ethel Carrick (Mrs E Phillips Fox)', The New Gallery, Melbourne, 2 -13 June
  • 1928 'Exposition Ethel Carrick', Galerie de la Palette Française, Paris, 5 -19 June:
  • 1933 'Ethel Carrick (Mrs E Phillips Fox) Exhibition of Pictures', Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, 24 May - 7 June
  • 1949 'Pictures by Ethel Carrick (Mrs E Phillips Fox)', Melbourne Book Club Gallery, 20 June - 2 July
  • 1949 'Exhibition of Pictures by Ethel Carrick (Mrs E Phillips Fox)', John Martin's Gallery, Adelaide , 4 - 18 October
  • 1979 'Ethel Carrick (Mrs E Phillips Fox): A Retrospective Exhibition', Geelong Art Gallery, 30 March - 4 May 1979 ; toured to SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 11 May - 3 June; University Art Museum, Brisbane, 13 June - 5 July

Group exhibitions held during the artist's lifetime[]

  • 1903 Society of Oil Painters, London, 19 October - 12 December
  • 1904 Felix Art Club (Alpine Art Club), London
  • 1905 International Society, London International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers January-February, March-May, May, October-December
  • 1906 Institute of Oil Painters, London 15 October - 12 December
  • 1906 Felix Art Club, London
  • 1906 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1906 Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1907 Institute of Oil Painters, London 14 October - 12 December
  • 1907 Salon d' Automne, Paris
  • 1907 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1907 Royal Academy, London
  • 1908 Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
  • 1908 Societe Les Quelques, Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris
  • 1908 Salon d' Automne, Paris
  • 1908 Allied Artists Association, London, July
  • 1909 'La Libre Esthetique, Catalogue de la seizieme Exposition a Bruxelles', Brussells, Belgium, 7 March - 12 April
  • 1909 Societe Les Quelques, Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris, February
  • 1909 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1909 Allied Artists Association, London
  • 1909 Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne
  • 1910 Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris
  • 1910 Societe Les Quelques, Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris, February
  • 1910 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1911 Societe Les Quelques, Galerie des Artistes Modernes, Paris, February
  • 1911 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1911 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1912 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1913 Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Français 21e Exposition, Grand Palais, Paris, 2-28 February
  • 1915 'Australian Artists War Fund Exhibition', Royal Art Society Rooms, Sydney, 9 March
  • 1915 'Australian Art Association 3rd Annual Exhibition', Athenaeum, Melbourne, 7-21 October
  • 1915 Red Cross Fund, Melbourne, March
  • 1916 'Art Curio and Antique Exhibition for the French Week Appeal Fund', Town Hall, Melbourne, July
  • 1916 Royal Society of Oil Painters, London, November
  • 1917 Royal Academy, London
  • 1918 'Salon des Poilus, Exhibition of Pictures for Sale', Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 6-20July (in aid of the French Red Cross)
  • 1918 'Exposition de l'Arc-en-Ciel', Galerie de Goupil & Cie, Paris, 8 October - 3 November
  • 1919 Salon d' Automne, Paris: 315 Mme de Marquette
  • 1920 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1921 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1921 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1921 Societe des Artistes lndependants, Paris
  • 1921 'Exposition de la Societe coloniale des Artistes Français', Societe des Artistes Français, Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris
  • 1922 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1922 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1923 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1923 Salon d' Automne, Paris
  • 1923 'Group of Australian Artists', Panton Galleries, London, November
  • 1924 'Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Australian Artists in Europe', Faculty of Arts, London, 23 June -12July
  • 1924 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1924 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1926 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1927 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1927 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1928 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1928 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1928 International exhibition, Bordeaux: Manly Beach - summer is here (awarded diplome d'honneur)
  • 1929 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1929 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1929 Societe des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, Paris
  • 1930 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1930 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1930 Societe des Amis des Arts de Bordeaux, Paris
  • 1931 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1931 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1932 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1931 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1933 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1933 Everyman's Lending Library, Melbourne, May
  • 1934 'An Exhibition by Melbourne Painters', Athenaeum Gallery, Melbourne, 27 February- 10 March (in aid of the Hermannsburg water supply, Central Australia)
  • 1935 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1936 Royal Academy, London
  • 1937 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1937 Royal Academy, London
  • 1937 Salon d'Automne, Paris
  • 1937 Royal Academy, London
  • 1937 Salon d' Automne
  • 1939 Royal Academy, London
  • 1939 Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
  • 1943--45 Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne
  • 1944 'Paintings by Ethel Phillips Fox, Jean Sutherland and Sybil Craig', KozminskyLower Gallery, Melbourne, 21 November- 1 December
  • 1945 Macquarie Galleries, Bligh Street, Sydney, 14-26 March
  • 1945 Anthony Hordern's Fine Art Gallery, Sydney
  • 1946 'French Comfort Fund Exhibition', David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 20-28 February
  • 1946 'French Comfort Fund', Myer's Art Gallery, Melbourne, 19 -29 March
  • 1947 Victorian Artists' Society, Melbourne
  • 1951 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
  • 1951 Royal Institute of Oil Painters, London

References[]

  1. ^ "Marriages," Daily News (London) Monday 28 Mar 1870, p.1
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Zubans, Ruth. "Fox, Ethel Carrick (1872–1952)". Australian Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 8, 1981.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Peers, Juliet. "Fox, Ethel (Carrick". In Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z, ed. Delia Gaze. pp. 545-46.
  4. ^ "Deaths," The Morning Post (London), Wednesday 08 Feb 1899, p.1
  5. ^ Goddard, Angela & Queensland Art Gallery (2011). Art, love & life : Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox. Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Qld
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Ethel Carrick Fox: Travels and Triumphs of a Post Impressionist". Susanna de Vries website.
  7. ^ De Vries, Susanna. Ethel Carrick Fox: Travels and Triumphs of a Post-Impressionist. Pandanus Press, 1997.
  8. ^ Peter Coster, "Winning bid", Herald Sun (Melb), Thu, 24 Apr 2008
  9. ^ "Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick & E Phillips Fox". Artbase website.
  10. ^ Argus, Tue, 4 Aug 1908
  11. ^ "Parisian Paintings: A Blaze Of Color. Mrs Fox's Collection," The Herald (Melb), Tue, 4 Aug 1908
  12. ^ "Miss Ethel Carrick's Pictures", Table Talk, Thu, 6 Aug 1908
  13. ^ "Social Notes", The Australasian, Thu, 6 Aug 1908
  14. ^ "SUNLIGHT AND MOTION". Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954). 9 July 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  15. ^ "MRS. E. PHILLIPS FOX'S PICTURES". Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918, 1935). 12 July 1913. p. 48. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  16. ^ "MRS. E. PHILLIPS FOX'S PICTURES". Punch (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1918; 1925). 24 July 1913. p. 41. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  17. ^ "IN SOCIETY AND OUT". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954). 8 October 1913. p. 6. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  18. ^ "SYDNEY JOTTINGS". Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932). 6 November 1913. p. 28. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  19. ^ "MRS. FOX'S PAINTINGS". Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931). 7 November 1913. p. 8. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  20. ^ "IMPRESSIONISM". Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). 7 November 1913. p. 7. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  21. ^ "DISTINGUISHED WOMAN ARTIST". Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954). 9 November 1913. p. 19. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  22. ^ "Rare Pictures". Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People (Sydney, NSW : 1900 - 1919). 29 November 1913. p. 5. Retrieved 20 April 2021.

Further reading[]

  • Howe, Elin. "Ethel Carrick Fox: The Cheat or the Cheated?". In Wallflowers and Witches: Women and Culture in Australia, 1910-1945, ed. Maryanne Dever. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1994, pp. 105–14
  • Pigot, John. "Les femmes orientalistes: Hilda Rix Nichols and Edith Carrick Fox in the East". Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender, ed. Jeannette Hoorn. University of Melbourne Press, 1994, pp. 155–68
  • Ethel Carrick Fox [Australian art and artists file], State Library Victoria
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