Monday, March 23, 2020

Expressionistic Topography (Paint)

Alexei von Jawlensky
Coast Scene with Red Hill
1911
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

Francis Cadell
Lunga from Iona
ca. 1923
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery 

Oskar Kokoschka
Polperro II
1939
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London

David Bomberg
Sunset North, The Bay, Devon
1946
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Edwin Smith
Storm over Southwold
ca. 1950
oil on canvas
Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, Essex

Reginald Brundrit
Grange Landscape
ca. 1950
oil on canvas
The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire

Edward Wolfe
Ibiza Landscape
1953
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Music, London

Edna Ginesi
Winter
ca. 1956
oil on canvas
Bradford Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Henry's Farewell – III

Fail may your enemies, abundant here,
in that most happy clime. Play it by ear
out there until all's straight
and may no rudeness interrupt your play.
One decade's war forget, in which, I may say,
we've scarcely won a battle to this date.

Fresh from the woodwork issued our blue foes
botanists & peasants of elementary german
drones, drones in the hive.
Faction ran wild & so did many vermin
fresh from their woodwork and we bore their blows
& carried on our work alive.

I fear the queen is swarming, toward the west
taking her chosen workers, for a stunt
leaving behind her Henry.
No harm in that, the old survival test.
Pardon my sore toast, nominal & blunt
& let's get on toward the sea.

 – John Berryman (1969)

Jeffery Camp
Golden Clifftop
1959
oil on board
Norfolk Museums

Anne Paterson
A Tree at Hospitalfield
1969
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 

John Houston
Yellow Sky Over Lake
1970
oil on canvas
Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow

Robert Buhler
High Alps, Switzerland
ca. 1971
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Claude Rogers
Fire at Night
ca. 1977
oil on canvas
Reading Museum, Berkshire

Jack Knox
Burning the Heather
ca. 1988
oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums

Tom Wanless
Blue Pool
1995
oil on canvas
Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire