Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Realist Paintings in the Modernist Era - VI

Raymond Wylie
Interior of Covent Garden Opera House, London
ca. 1960-65
oil on canvas
Museum of London

Ivor Williams
Raising of Lazarus
1968
oil on canvas
Bangor University, Wales

Jacqueline Stanley
Smithfield Market, London
1969
oil on canvas
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Anne Redpath
The Yellow Sofa
ca. 1960
oil on canvas
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Daniel O'Neill
Three Friends
1969-70
oil on board
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Cherry-lipped Adonis in his snowy shape
     Might not compare with his pure ivory white
     On whose fair front a poet's pen may write,
Whose roseate red excels the crimson grape.
His love-enticing delicate soft limbs
     Are rarely framed t'entrap poor gazing eyes,
     His cheeks, the lily and carnation dyes
With lovely tincture, which Apollo's dims.
His lips ripe strawberries in nectar wet,
     His mouth a hive, his tongue a honeycomb
     Where Muses (like bees) make their mansion,
His teeth pure pearl in blushing coral set.
     Oh how can such a body, sin-procuring,
     Be slow to love and quick to hate enduring?

– Richard Barnfield (1595)

John Nash
Grange Farm
ca. 1960
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Kathryn Kynoch
Hayricks at Hospitalfield
1962
oil on canvas
Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland

Philomena Kennedy
Kent Landscape
1965
oil on board
Dover Collections, Kent

Henry Inlander
Open Window (Mirror Image)
1968
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

David Hepher
Still Life
1963
oil on panel
Museums Sheffield, Yorkshire

Alan Durman
Ramsgate
1960
oil on canvas
(for poster reproduction)
National Railway Museum, York

Bernard Dunstan
Sotheby's
ca. 1960
oil on canvas
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

John Brown
Still Life
1966
oil on board
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

William Brooker
Orange Label
1965
oil on canvas
Gallery Oldham, Manchester

Raymond C. Booth
Crocus
1962
oil on canvas
Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Cheshire