Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) - Single Figures

Keith Vaughan
Leaping Figure
1951
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Study for Nude against Green Background
1953
oil on panel
private collection

Keith Vaughan
Woodman in a Clearing
1955
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Keith Vaughan
Nude against a Rock
1957
oil on panel
private collection

Keith Vaughan
Walking Figure
1958
oil on panel
Jerwood Collection, London

Widow McFarlane

I was the Widow McFarlane,
Weaver of carpets for all the village.
And I pity you still at the loom of life,
You who are singing to the shuttle
And lovingly watching the work of your hands,
If you reach the day of hate, of terrible truth.
For the cloth of life is woven, you know,
To a pattern hidden under the loom –
A pattern you never see!
And you weave high-hearted, singing, singing,
You guard the threads of love and friendship
For noble figures in gold and purple.
And long after other eyes can see
You have woven a moon-white strip of cloth,
You laugh in your strength, for Hope o'erlays it
With shapes of love and beauty.
The loom stops short! The pattern's out!
You're alone in the room! You have woven a shroud!
And hate of it lays you in it!

– Edgar Lee Masters (1915)

Keith Vaughan
Warrior
1959
oil on canvas
Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (Wales)

Keith Vaughan
Figure in a Red Room
ca. 1960
oil on panel
Norfolk Museums (England)

Keith Vaughan
Standing Figure
1960
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Keith Vaughan
Bather: August 4th, 1961
1961
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Algerian
1962
oil on panel
private collection

Keith Vaughan
Standing Figure - Blue Background
1963
oil on canvas
private collection

Keith Vaughan
Landscape with Seated Figure
1964
oil on panel
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Keith Vaughan
Standing Figure
1962
oil on canvas
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (Sussex)

Ida Kar
Keith Vaughan in his studio, Hampstead, London
1960
photograph
National Portrait Gallery, London