Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Full-Length Figure-Studies (Painted) - I

Arthur Hacker
Syrinx
1892
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Albert Joseph Moore
A Venus
before 1893
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

David Bomberg
The Bath
1922
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

William George Gillies
Bathers
ca. 1924-25
oil on canvas
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh

William Edward Frost
The Sea Cave
ca. 1851
oil on canvas
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth

Annie Louisa Swynnerton
A Dryad
ca. 1880
oil on canvas
Glasgow Museums

Topiary

I cannot know twisted Henriette of the plant kingdom
Engrafted with a crutch. And yet her bulbous concerns
Effuse a solid blue from inside,
Like a steel Dryad, and her gaze effaced

Shines with distended power. Otherwise
These clusterjewels would not dazzle us so,
As limbs proliferate through her pulped brain
From dendrites where creation flared

And this crippled tree would seem defaced,
J'Accuse! beneath the lace of this clipped sister
And would not glisten in synaptic blasts

Would not, from all the reaching boughs of self,
Burst like ripe sapphires: for here there is no place
That does not see you. You shake forth a nest.

– Camille Guthrie, from Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois (2013)

attributed to Daniel Seiter
Venus and Cupid
ca. 1675-1700
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Sleeping Odalisque
ca. 1830-40
oil on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Lucian Freud
Small Naked Portrait
1973-74
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

William Etty
A Bather
ca. 1835-45
oil on panel
York City Art Gallery

William Etty
Standing Model
ca. 1830
oil on panel
Fairfax House, York

William Etty
Three Female Nudes
before 1849
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

William Etty
Two Female Nudes
before 1849
oil on panel
Courtauld Gallery, London

Myles Murphy
Yellow Nude
1963
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Euan Uglow
The Blue Towel
1982
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Jerwood Collection, London