Sunday, August 30, 2020

"Social Studies" by Twentieth-Century Painters - II

Anna Zinkeisen
St Mary's First Aid Post by Candlelight
1941
oil on canvas
Imperial War Museum, London

Ethel Gabain
Sandbag-Filling, Islington Borough Council
ca. 1941
oil on canvas
Imperial War Museum, London

Claude Rogers
The Broad Walk, Regent's Park
1938
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Victor Pasmore
The Palace Pier, Brighton
ca. 1936
oil on canvas
The Hepworth, Wakefield, Yorkshire

Anne Finlay
A Woman's Life
1938
oil on board
Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire

from In Reference to Her Children

I had eight birds hatcht in one nest,
Four Cocks were there, and Hens the rest.
I nurst them up with pain and care,
No cost nor labour did I spare
Till at the last they felt their wing,
Mounted the Trees and learned to sing.

– Anne Bradstreet (1659)  

Mabel Frances Layng
Tea Dance
ca. 1925-30
watercolour on card
Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford

Meredith Frampton
A Game of Patience
1937
oil on canvas
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

James Bateman
Silage
ca. 1940
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

William Roberts
Sawing Wood
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Carel Weight
Two Lovers Interrupted by a Sprite
ca. 1938
oil on canvas
Portsmouth Museums, Hampshire

Jack Butler Yeats
Return of the Wanderer
ca. 1928
oil on board
Ulster Museum, Belfast

John Leigh-Pemberton
The Gallery Objects
ca. 1925-35
oil on canvas
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands

Bernard Dunstan
Listening to Music
ca. 1940
oil on cardboard
University College London Art Museum

Christopher Campbell
Self Portrait - The Artist and his Sister
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Christopher Clark
London for State Occasions
ca. 1930
oil on canvas
(for reproduction as poster)
National Railway Museum, York