| Administrative History | The earliest monograph was Myfanwy Evans's 'Frances Hodgkins' (1948). Later works include E H McCormick's 'Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand' (Auckland, 1954) and 'Portrait of Frances Hodgkins' (Auckland, 1981), and 'Frances Hodgkins: Paintings and Drawings' (1995), by Iain Buchanan, Michael Dunn and Elizabeth Eastmond. Letters from Hodgkins to Howell are included in 'Letters of Frances Hodgkins', edited by Linda Gill (Auckland, 1993). Frances Hodgkins was born in Dunedin, the daughter of a watercolour artist. From 1895 to 1896 she studied at the Dunedin School of Art. She left New Zealand for London in 1901 and held her first one-woman exhibition at Paterson's Gallery in London in 1907. She lived in Paris between 1908 and 1914 and was the first woman instructor at the Academie Colarossi. She returned to England for the duration of the First World War, residing in St Ives. She exhibited with the London Group and was elected a member of the Seven and Five Society in 1929. Retrospective exhibitions were held at the Lefevre Gallery in 1946 and by the Arts Council in 1952. Arthur R Howell was director of the St George's Gallery in London, where Hodgkins held an exhibition in 1930. He quoted from letters she had written to him (now in TGA 735) in his monograph 'Frances Hodgkins: Four Vital Years' (1951). Lilian Harmston worked as manageress at the St George's Gallery. |
| Custodial History | Presented to the Tate Gallery by Lilian Harmston, in memory of Arthur R Howell, in 1958, 1964 and 1971, and transferred to the Archive in 1973. |