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| Thomas Henslow Barnard Cottage Loaf and Vin Rosé 1976 oil on panel The Wilson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
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| Raymond C. Booth Stoat in Winter 1974 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
"The foxes all had names, which were printed on a tin plate and hung beside their doors. They were not named when they were born, but when they survived the first year's pelting and were added to the breeding stock. Those my father had named were called names like Prince, Bob, Wally and Betty. Those I had named were called Star or Turk, or Maureen or Diana. Laird had named one Maud after a hired girl we had when he was little, one Harold after a boy at school, and one Mexico, he did not say why."
– Alice Munro, from the story Boys and Girls in Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
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| Gordon Cameron Main Street ca. 1971 oil on canvas Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh |
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| Maurice Cockrill Two Windows, Two People 1972-73 acrylic on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Alan Dodd Interior, London N1 1976 oil on board Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire |
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| Patrick Hennessy The Old Tree ca. 1970-71 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| David Hepher No. 22 1972 acrylic on canvas British Council Collection, London |
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| Kathryn Kynoch Barley Field 1972 oil on panel Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow |
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| Patricia Lear Interior Through Mirror 1978 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| Michael Murfin An Afternoon 1978 acrylic on canvas Colchester and Ipswich Museums, Essex |
"When May came back to the kitchen her grandmother was still drinking coffee and looking at the want-ad section of the city paper, as if she had no store to open or breakfast to cook or anything to do all day. Hazel had got up and was ironing a dress to wear to work. She worked in a store in Kinkaid which was thirty miles away and she had to leave for work early. She tried to persuade her mother to sell the store and go and live in Kinkaid which had two movie theatres, plenty of stores and restaurants and a Royal Dance Pavilion; but the old woman would not budge. She told Hazel to go and live where she liked but Hazel for some reason did not go. She was a tall drooping girl of thirty-three, with bleached hair, a long wary face and an oblique resentful expression emphasized by a slight cast, a wilful straying of one eye. She had a trunk full of embroidered pillowcases and towels and silverware. She bought a set of dishes and a set of copper-bottomed pots and put them away in her trunk; she and the old woman and May continued to eat off chipped plates and cook in pots so battered they rocked on the stove.
"Hazel's got everything she needs to get married but she just lacks on thing," the old woman would say.
Hazel drove all over the country to dances with other girls, who worked in Kinkaid or taught school. On Sunday morning she got up with a hangover and took coffee with aspirin and put on her silk print dress and drove off down the road to sing in the choir. Her mother, who said she had no religion, opened up the store and sold gas and ice cream to tourists.
Hazel hung over the ironing-board yawning and tenderly rubbing her blurred face and the old woman read out loud, "Tall industrious man, thirty-five years old, desires make acquaintance woman of good habits, non-smoker or drinker, fond of home life, no triflers please."
"Aw, Mom," Hazel said.
"What's triflers?" May said.
"Man in prime of life," the old woman read relentlessly, "desires friendship of healthy woman without encumbrances, send photograph first letter."
"Aw cut it out, Mom," Hazel said.
"What's encumbrances?" May said.
– Alice Munro, from the story A Trip to the Coast in Dance of the Happy Shades (1968)
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| Kenneth Newton Study of Roses 1976 oil on canvas Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall |
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| David Pettigrew Untitled 1971 oil on board Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Tim Pomeroy My Old Men, Hospital 1979 oil on canvas Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Philip Scoular Untitled 1975 oil on canvas Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen |
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| Laetitia Yhap Paul, Michael, Stephen and Tim in Summer 1977-79 oil on board Southbank Centre, London |