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An artist’s signature can prove useful as a device for dating a work. Some artists remained fairly consistent in their signature style, while others’ signatures evolved over time. This is certainly the case in Frances Hodgkins’ works. When examining her paintings, experts can narrow down a date for the work in question based on the style of her signature.

 

Frances Hodgkins Signature Timeline

1893

Old Boathouse, Port Chalmers

Watercolour & gouache, 20 x 36 cm
Signed with monogram FH centre right

 

1899

Maori Girl in Blue

Watercolour, 29 x 21 cm
Signed FH top right & dated '99

 

1900

Maori Girl

Watercolour, 32 x 21.5 cm
Signed FH & dated '00

 

1901

The Poulterers’ Corner, Arles

Watercolour, 18 x 11.5 cm
Signed with monogram FH lower right

 

1901

Calves for Sale, Les Andelys,

Watercolour on paper, 20 x 15.5 cm
Signed FH & dated 1901 lower right

 
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1901

Old Woman, Caudebec,

Watercolour & gouache, 50 x 32 cm
Signed FH lower right & dated ’01

 

1901-1902

Mother and Daughter Preparing Flowers

Watercolour, 29 x 22 cm
Signed with initials FH lower right

 

1902

A Street Market in Brittany

Watercolour, 17 x 12 cm
Signed FH lower right

 

1902

Breton Pottery c.1902

Watercolour, 17.5 x 11.3 cm
Signed with monogram FH lower right

 
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1902

Rue de l’Horloge, Dinan

Watercolour, 35 x 26 cm
Signed with initials FH & dated 1902 lower right

 
 

1903

Study of a Sudanese

Watercolour, 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Signed FH & dated '03 lower right

 
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1905

Preparing food at a Maori Village, Rotorua

Watercolour, 26.5 x 22 cm
Signed & dated 1905

 

1907

The Bridge, Dordrecht

Watercolour, 41 x 47 cm
Signed F Hodgkins lower right

 

1907

The Canal, Dordrecht

Watercolour, 43.5 x 53.5 cm
Signed F Hodgkins & dated 07 lower right

 

1910

Gypsies on Hilltop

Watercolour, 47.5 x 45 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1910-14

The Family After Dinner

Watercolour, 55 x 71 cm
Signed F Hodgkins lower right

 

1917

Children Playing

Watercolour, 42 x 42 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
Inscribed "To Mrs Hellyer from Frances Hodgkins, 1917"

 

1918

Portrait of Miss Beatrice Wood

Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 73 cm
Signed lower right

 
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1919

The Little Wine Shop

Watercolour, 44 x 31 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left

 

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1919

Ludlow Castle, c.1919

Watercolour, 23 x 23 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1921

Cassis Quarryman and Wife

Black chalk, 32 x 45 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower centre & titled Cassis Quarryman and Wife verso

1922

Burford High Street, Oxfordshire

Watercolour & pencil, 11 x 13 cm
Signed F Hodgkins lower right

 

1926

The Water Wheel

Watercolour & pencil, 20 x 30.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1926

Bridgnorth C. 1926

Pencil, ink, watercolour & wash on card
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1927

Girl Seated on a Chair C. 1927

Gouache, 53 x 34 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1927

Lancashire Children

Oil on canvas, 74 x 61 cm
Signed lower left & lower right

 

1928

Flowers and Spanish Pottery

Watercolour, 39 x 46 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

Titled verso Flowers and Spanish Pottery

 
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1929

The Croquet Game, Peaslake c. 1929

Pencil on paper, 32 x 50 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1930

The Sitting Room

Black chalk on paper, 30 x 30 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower centre

 

1930

Three Bowls of Flowers

Watercolour & gouache, 51 x 54 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left

 

1931

Still Life with a Vase of Flowers and Eggs c.1931

Watercolour, 49 x 39 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1931

A Barn in Provence

Watercolour & gouache, 34.5 x 46 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left

 

1931

Bodinnick, Cornwall

Watercolour, 45 x 37 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
Inscribed Bodinnick, Cornwall lower right


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1931-34

The Croft, Still life with Divan

(The Croft: View from a window / The Ottoman)
Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 76.2 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1932

Pleasure Boat, Bridgnorth c. 1932

Watercolour and gouache on paper, 52.5 x 41.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1933

Ibiza

Watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 48.3 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
Inscribed Ibiza lower left

 

1933

Figures in a Mediterranean Landscape

Watercolour, 48 x 36 cm
Signed in pencil lower right
Inscribed below mount garden scene

 

1933

Storm (Ibiza) c. 1933

Watercolour & gouache,
40 x 52 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1933

Terrace Garden, Ibiza

Watercolour & gouache on paper, 54 x 39 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

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1934

Ibiza

Watercolour & gouache,
49 x 37 cm
Signed & dated 1934
Inscribed To Eve from Frances Hodgkins 10.10.34

 
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1934

The Weir, Braford-on-Tone

Oil on canvas, 59 x 85.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1930-35

House in the Countryside

Watercolour, 63 x 45 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left 

 

1935

Spanish Landscape

Watercolour, 37 x 48.5 cm
Signed lower right
Inscribed No. 12 Spanish Landscape

 

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1935

Pumpkins

Collotype printed 1952, 52 x 70 cm
Published by Ganymed, 1952 from the 1935 gouache

 
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c.1936

Middle Mill, Solva

Oil on canvas, signed lower right

 

1936

Pergola c. 1936

Gouache on paper,
72 x 53 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1936

Marrows and Peppers, Tossa

Gouache on paper, 51 x 72 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left Titled No. 3 Marrows

 

1937

Still Life, Arrangement of Jugs

Watercolour & gouache, 46 x 61 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 
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1937

Methodist Chapel

Gouache, 48 x 63 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left

 

1938

Arrangement of Jugs

Lithograph, 45 x 60 cm
Signed lower right

 
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1938

Houses and Outhouses, Purbeck

Oil on canvas, 80 x 115 cm
Signed lower left 

 

1938

Arrangement of Jugs

Lithograph, 45 x 60 cm
Signed lower right

 
 

1939

River Tone, Somerset

Watercolour & gouache, 53.5 x 37cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left

 

1941

The Corner of the Woods

Gouache, 40 x 51.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1941 lower centre

 

1942

Welsh Emblem

Gouache on paper, 37 x 54 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1942 lower right

 

1943

The Farm Pond

Gouache on paper, 47 x 66.5 cm
Signed & dated 1943

 

1943

The Water Mill

Gouache, 50 x 38.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left & dated 1943

 

1944

Country Colour, Purbeck

Gouache on paper, 50 x 65 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1944 lower right

 
 

1945

Christmas Tree

Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm 
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right

 

1945

Corfe Castle Village

Watercolour and gouache, 44 x 60 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1945 lower left

Titled on mount No. 2 Corfe Castle and To Corfe Castle Titled verso No. 2 Corfe Castle Village