Saturday, August 1, 2020

Painted Impressions of British Private Spaces (Interiors) - IV

Gretta Bowen
A Night at Home
ca. 1951-56
oil on panel
Ulster Museum, Belfast

 Charles James McCall
Maquillage
ca. 1952
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Terence Cuneo
Colonel and Mrs. Vere Cotton
1952
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Glynn Porteous
Scullery Sink
ca. 1954
oil on board
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Alberto Morrocco
The Attic Bedroom
1955
oil on canvas
McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland

Arthur Armstrong
Bedroom at Ballylough
ca. 1956
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Another Thing

Like fossil shells embedded in a stone,
you are an absence, rimmed calligraphy,
a mouthing out of silence, a way to see
beyond the bedroom where you lie alone.
So why not be the vast, antipodal cloud
you soloed under, riven by cold gales?
And why not be the song of diving whales,
why not the plosive surf below the road?

The others are one thing. They know they are.
One compass needle. They have found their way
and navigate by perfect cynosure.
Go wreck yourself once more against the day
and wash up like a bottle on the shore,
lucidity and salt in all you say.

– David Mason (2013)

Carel Weight
Interior
ca. 1958
oil on canvas
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Dan Stephen
The Painter's Studio
1961
oil on canvas
Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire

John Lessore
Woman Writing at a Desk
ca. 1966
oil on canvas
University of York

Frederick Cuming
Veranda, Evening
ca. 1972
oil on board
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Anthony Green
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne - The Second Marriage
1972
oil on board
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Anthony Green
My Mother alone in her Dining Room
1975-76
oil on board
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Sally Moore
Figure in a Studio
ca. 1983
oil on canvas
Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Tyne and Wear

Tom Dixon
Self Portrait
1986
oil on panel
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Leonard Rosoman
The Painter Richard Eurich in his Studio
1988
acrylic on canvas
Bradford Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire