Saturday, April 25, 2020

Academic Figure Studies Painted in London (1906-1939)

Maribel Rough
Académie
1906
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Eileen Lambton
Académie
1912
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Arthur Outlaw
Académie
1914
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Thomas Tennant Baxter
Académie
1914
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Thora Peppercorn
Académie
1916
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Helen Young
Académie
1916
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

C.E. Roberts
Académie
1920
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Daphne Pollen
Académie
1920
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Pistachio Tree at Château Noir 

Beaucoup de musique classique et moderne Guillaume and not
as one may imagine it sounds not in the ear
what went was attributed to wandering aimlessly off
what came arrived simply for itself and inflamed me
yet I do not explain what exactly makes me so happy today
any more than I can explain the unseasonal warmth
of my unhabitual heart pumping vulgarly the blood
of another I loved another and now my love is other
my love is in the movies downstairs and yesterday
bought ice cream and looked for a pigeon-menaced owl
mais, Guillaume, où es-tu, Guillaume, comme les musiques

and like the set for Rigoletto like the set for Roma
like so many sets one's heart is torn like Berman's
spacious haunt where tenors walk in pumps and girls
in great big hats or none at all "or perhaps he recorded
the panorama of hills and valleys before the strangely
naked" and rain is turning the set into a dumpling

wherever I see a "while" I seem to lose a little time
and gradually my feet dragging I slow down the damn bus
it is because of you so I can watch you smile longer
that's what the Spring is and the elbow of noon walks
where did you go who did you see the children proclaim
and they too gradually fill the sepulchre with dolls
and the sepulchre jumps and jounces and turns pink with wrath

– Frank O'Hara (1961)

Robin Guthrie
Académie
1920
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Thomas Monnington
Académie
1921
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Katherine Hartnell
Académie
1926
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

William Dobell
Académie
1930
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Phyllis Heaney
Académie
1930
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Karin Jonzen
Académie
1936
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Nora Braham
Académie
1939
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum