Helen Sutherland collected art (and artists) according to her own tastes and nobody else's, something which, according to her friend Edward Hodgkin, prompted comments about the 'folly of letting an unmarried woman loose with a lot of money'. She met Winifred and Ben Nicholson in 1925 and eventually owned forty-seven works by Ben at a time when, as Hodgkin said, it required 'courage as well as taste' to collect pieces by 'young artists who were known to a few and admired by even fewer'. This is 1932 (crowned head: the queen) by Ben Nicholson which is in Abbot Hall, gifted by Helen Sutherland in 1965.