Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Painted Personalities (Twenty-First Century)

Stuart Pearson Wright
Portrait of dancer Adam Cooper
2000
oil on panel
National Portrait Gallery, London

Martin David Solomon
Cupid
2001
acrylic on canvas
Coventry University, Warwickshire

Hughie O'Donoghue
Wrestlers
2000-2002
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Peter Collins
The Boy Child
2003
oil on board
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh

Ian McCulloch
Embarkation for Cythera
2004
acrylic and collage on canvas (triptych)
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh

Sleepover

Ida and Isidor Straus sleep side by side
eternally in an Egyptian galley
fronting their Woodlawn mausoleum.
Symbolically they lie. Their boat is small;
nor was her body recovered from the Titanic.
And yet the image of the voyage holds.

Why not embark? A river runs behind me
on the other side of this dark window.
A dream called Night Boat
arranged us side by side in a black craft,
sailing the river of forgetfulness
until the stars went out.

It was poetic license. I didn't dream that boat.
The boat was dream, and we were passengers
balanced on the slippery cusp of daylight,
unless you had already disembarked
in some shadowy port,
leaving me to sail along alone.

– Rachel Hadas (2015)

Caroline Walker
Jade Room
ca. 2004
acrylic on board
Shetland Contemporary Art Collection, Lerwick

Enzo Marra
Observers
2015
oil on panel
Priseman Seabrook Collection, Wivenhoe, Essex

Eugenie Vronskaya
Night Studio Study
ca. 2005
oil on canvas
Ruth Borchard Collection, London

R.B. Kitaj
Radiant Turquoise Self Portrait
2006
oil on canvas
Ingram Collection, London

Peter Keegan
Self Portrait from the Back
2006
oil on board
Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales

Tom Wood
As Above, So Below
ca. 2006
oil and wax on canvas
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Rita Norah Greer
Imaginary Portrait of scientist Robert Hooke
2010
oil on board
Christ Church, University of Oxford

Iain Andrews
The Duke and Duchess of Torquemada
2012
acrylic on canvas
Priseman Seabrook Collection, Wivenhoe, Essex

Wendy Saunders
Rosy
2012
oil on canvas
Priseman Seabrook Collection, Wivenhoe, Essex

James Bland
Self Portrait
2013
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Ruth Borchard Collection, London