Friday, March 27, 2020

Many-Colored Surfaces (Paint)

Roger Hilton
August 1953
1953
acrylic on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery
 
Antony Donaldson
'Starr Queen' for Jenny Davis
1962
oil on board
Southbank Centre, London

John Hubbard
Composition with Pink
1962
oil on paper
Government Art Collection, London

Margot Perryman
Untitled
ca. 1963
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Helen Frankenthaler
Sands
1964
acrylic on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Peter Sedgley
Glide
ca. 1966
acrylic on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

I tie my Hat – I crease my Shawl –
Life's little duties do – precisely –
As the very least
Were infinite – to me –

I put new Blossoms in the Glass –
And throw the Old – away –
I push a petal from my Gown
That anchored there – I weigh
The time 'twill be till six o'clock –
So much I  have to do –
And yet – existence – some way back –
Stopped – struck – my ticking – through –

We cannot put Ourself away
As a completed Man
Or Woman – When the errand's done
We came to Flesh – upon –
There may be – Miles on Miles of Nought –
Of Action – sicker far –
To simulate – is stinging work –
To cover what we are

From Science – and from Surgery –
Too Telescopic eyes
To bear on us unshaded –
For their – sake – Not for Ours –

Therefore – we do life's labor –
Though life's Reward – be done –
With scrupulous exactness –
To build our Senses – on –

– Emily Dickinson (1863)

Margaret Mellis
Scarlet Green Square
1966
oil on board
Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Essex

Bryan Wynter
Meander 3
1967
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Martin Froy
Colham
1968
acrylic on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Patrick Heron
Red, Scarlet, Ceruleum and Dull Green: 1971-February 1975
1971-75
oil on canvas
British Council Collection, London

Jeremy Moon
No. 14 / 73
1973
acrylic on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Madeleine Vernau
Fraser
1991
oil on canvas
Grimsby School of Art, Lincolnshire

Julie Houston
Untitled
1999
oil on board
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

Alan Windsor
Gem II
2002
acrylic on canvas
University of Surrey, Guildford

Nicola Williams
Untitled
2003
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen