Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Male Fashions as Preserved in Paintings (20th Century)

Gaston Linden
 Horace Annesley Vachell, Writer
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

William Bruce Ellis Ranken
The Young Polo Player
1920
oil on canvas
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire

William Logsdail
Portrait of Guy Bedford
1920
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Philip de László
Sir Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
1924
oil on canvas
National Trust, Mount Stewart House, County Down

John Luke
The Tipster
1928
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Ian Fleming
The Two Roberts: Colquhoun and MacBryde
1937-38
oil on canvas
Glasgow School of Art

Duncan Grant
William Squire in Sailor Costume
1949
oil on paper
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Break, Break, Break 

Break, break, break,
          On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
          The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman's boy,
          That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
          That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
          To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
          And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break
          At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
          Will never come back to me.

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1835)

Robert John Swan
Lindsay Kemp, Between the Acts
1962
oil on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Byrne
Self Portrait with Red Palette
ca. 1974-75
oil and acrylic on panel
Glasgow Museums

Tom Wood
The Canvasser
1979
acrylic on canvas
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Haydn Cottam
The Venus de Mile End
ca. 1985
oil on canvas
Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse, Leicestershire

Steven Campbell
Three Men Exactly the Same Size in an Unequal Room
1987
oil on canvas
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire

Michael Kidd
Portrait of Iwan Llewelyn Jones
1993
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, Powys, Wales

Jason Butler
Portrait of Gerard O'Donoghue
1994
oil on canvas
Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, St. Helier

Peter Martin
Self Portrait
ca. 1999
oil on canvas
Dundee College, Scotland