Saturday, April 18, 2020

Paintings of Artists at Work / Studio Spaces - After 1950

Robert Medley
The Antique Room
ca. 1955
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Jessie Alexandra Dick
Self Portrait in the Studio
ca. 1955
oil on canvas
(this painting was lost in a fire in 2014)
Glasgow School of Art

Gabrielle Stubbs
Model in Studio
1961
oil on canvas
Edinburgh College of Art

Robert Barnes
Drawing and Painting Studio
ca. 1971
oil on canvas
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

Joyce Fisher
The Studio
1973
oil on canvas
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee

Kevin Sinnott
The Studio
(with superimposed portrait of art historian Kenneth Clark)
1974
acrylic and gesso on canvas
Royal College of Art, London

Nichollas Hamper
The Artist in his Studio
1981
acrylic on canvas
Royal College of Art, London

Gina Gables
Reclining Model
ca. 1984
oil on canvas
Franklin College, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

Eclipse with Object

There is a spectacle and something is added to history.
It has as its object an indiscretion: old age, a
gun, the prevention of sleep.

I am placed in its stead
and the requisite shadow is yours.
It casts across me, a violent coat.

It seems I fit into its sleeve.
So the body wanders.
Sometimes it goes where light does not reach.

You recall how they moved in the moon dust? Hop, hop.
What they said to us from that distance was stupid.
They did not say I love you for example.

The spectacle has been placed in my room.
Can you hear its episode trailing,
pretending to be a thing with variegated wings?

Do you know the name of this thing?
It is a rubbing from an image.
The subject of the image is that which trespasses.

You are invited to watch. The body
in complete dark casting nothing back.
The thing turns and flicks and opens.

– Ann Lauterbach (1994)

Donald Sinclair
The Studio
1989
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Shani Rhys James
Studio: Self Portrait
ca. 1992
oil on canvas
Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Wales

Paula Rego
The Artist in her Studio
1993
acrylic on canvas
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire

Alberto Morrocco
The Studio with Lay Figure
1993
oil on canvas
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh

Stephen McKenna
Large Studio at Castiglion
1993
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Colin Trevor Johnson
Porthmeor Studio Window, St Ives
1994
oil on board
Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, Devon

Tom Hogan
Studio
1999
oil on canvas
Coventry University, Warwickshire