Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Human and/or Divine Figures in Paint (1900-1910)

Édouard Vuillard
Madame Vuillard arranging her Hair
1900
oil on board
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Lady Frances Layland-Barratt
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay

David Comba Adamson
Académie
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
University of Dundee

Sidney Meteyard
Hope comforting Love in Bondage
1901
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Earth's Answer

Earth raised up her head
From the darkness dread and drear.
Her light fled,
Stony dread!
And her locks covered with grey despair.

"Prisoned on wat'ry shore,
Starry Jealousy does keep my den:
Cold and hoar,
Weeping o'er,
I hear the Father of the ancient men.

Selfish father of men!
Cruel, jealous, selfish fear!
Can delight,
Chained in night,
The virgins of youth and morning bear?

Does spring hide its joy
When buds and blossoms grow?
Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in darkness plow?

Break this heavy chain
That does freeze my bones around.
Selfish! Vain!
Eternal bane!
That free Love with bondage bound."

– William Blake, from Songs of Experience (1794)

Hubert von Herkomer
Souvenir of Watts
1901
oil on metal
Southampton City Art Gallery

Edward Poynter
Diana and Endymion
1901
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Alfred Munnings
Julian's Atelier in Paris
1901
oil on canvas
Munnings Art Museum, Colchester

Robert Fowler
Sleeping Nymphs discovered by a Shepherd
1902
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

William Strang
The Fisherman's Home
1905
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Walter Sickert
Reclining Nude, Mornington Crescent
1905
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Charles Haslewood Shannon
The Infant Bacchus
1906
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Solomon Joseph Solomon
St George
ca. 1906
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Frank Brangwyn
Susanna and the Elders
1907
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot
Académie
1909
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Hugh Cameron
Académie
1909
oil on canvas
Edinburgh College of Art