Saturday, August 29, 2020

"Social Studies" by Twentieth-Century Painters - I

Nora Cundell
The Back Parlour, Café Loos, Étaples
ca. 1920
oil on canvas
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside

Malcolm Drummond
Chelsea Public Library
1920
oil on canvas
Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Yorkshire

Maurice Greiffenhagen
London: Piccadilly
1926
oil on canvas
(for reproduction as poster)
National Railway Museum, York

Harold Harvey
Blackberrying
1917
oil on canvas
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery, Tyne-and-Wear

George Washington Lambert
Horse Fair
ca. 1908
oil on canvas
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries

S. MacAntisionnaigh
The Slade Tea Party
1924
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

from Lines for People After the Party

And whenever they couldn't speak they looked at each other.
How long should I look at the world before I go home?
It's a moody life like Debussy on a weekend
and all the appointments and money and drinks they do go.
So with our beautiful coats we went back to that mess
and what happened? Someone found what they wanted
by night, by mistake.

– Alex Dimitrov (2013)

Elsie McNaught
Frieze of Figures Standing in a Landscape
1910
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Ludwig von Hofmann
Weinlese (Harvest)
1905-1906
oil on canvas
Neues Museum, Weimar

James Clark
The Apprentice
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire

Richard Ernst Eurich
Sailors and Other Figures Carousing by a Quay
1925
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Stanhope Alexander Forbes
The Old Pier Steps
1911
oil on canvas
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire

Thérèse Lessore
Place d'Aix, Marseilles
1922
oil on canvas
Portsmouth Museums, Hampshire

James Cowie
In the Classroom
1922
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Mabel Frances Layng
Café
1925
watercolour on card
Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

Byam Shaw
Such is Life
1907
oil on canvas
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire