ArtistsWinifred Nicholson
Winifred Nicholson

Winifred Nicholson

British, 1893–1981
WA-00053128
Oxford, UK
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8
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18
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2
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  • Birth yearArtsy· 92%

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Winifred Nicholson was a British painter whose luminous abstractions and landscapes emerged from a sustained engagement with color harmony and light. Working in the early twentieth century, her compositions balance geometric clarity with lyrical sensibility, moving between pure abstraction and observed natural forms. Her work has been held in museum collections and remains integral to discussions of British modernism and the development of non-representational painting in Britain.

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Artworks (8)

Artwork sources (2)

8 published of 9 catalogued · 9 with image
  • Tate
    8 published8 img
  • + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 8)

8 entries · 1 sources
  • Moonlight and Lamplight
    1937 · Tate · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
  • Quarante Huit Quai d’Auteuil
    1935 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Flower Table
    1928 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Window-Sill, Lugano
    1923 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Recollect
    1973 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Glimpse Upon Waking
    1976 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • Sandpipers, Alnmouth
    1933 · Tate · 1 prov
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  • The Hunter’s Moon
    1955 · Tate · 1 prov
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Winifred Nicholson (Wikipedia)
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Artsy artwork: Ben and Slinky (1927)
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Artsy artwork: Narcissi in Basket (1979)
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Artsy artwork: Potsloan (ca. 1978)
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Artsy artwork: Winter Primula (1940)
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Artsy artwork: Abstract composition 
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Coss Ballance II (Art Institute of Chicago)
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Art Institute of Chicago
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