Operating room staff wheeling a patient back into a ward after an operation. Oil painting by Ethel Macmillan, ca. 1940.

  • Macmillan, Ethel, 1909-1957.
Date:
[between 1939 and 1941?]
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525188i
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Operating room staff wheeling a patient back into a ward after an operation. Oil painting by Ethel Macmillan, ca. 1940. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Two female nurses and a corpulent male porter, seen from behind, push a hospital trolley holding a patient towards the left of the picture, while another nurse walks along side holding up a bottle of saline infusion. On the right, a canister of oxygen (?)

Publication/Creation

[London], [between 1939 and 1941?]

Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas laid down on millboard ; millboard 30.3 x 40.3 cm

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Lettering

Back from the theatre. E. Macmillan Label on verso with handwritten text: "Ethel Macmillan (Mrs), 17 Grove Terrace NW5 'Back from the theatre'"

References note

'Ethel Macmillan', The times, 31 August 1957 ("she developed an extremely individual style in oil painting, depicting groups of people as they live ... proletarians crowd round whelk stalls, nurses bring back a patient from the operating theatre, loungers sit in Spanish cafés ...")

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Wellcome Collection 525188i

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