Tuesday, September 1, 2020

"Social Studies" by Twentieth-Century Painters - IV

Kevin Sinnott
In Greenham Common Did the Peacemakers
1983
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Zdzislaw Ruszkowski
Bathers in Sunlight
1978
oil on canvas
Scarborough Art Gallery, Yorkshire

Simon Pierse
Bathers
1979
oil on panel
University College London Art Museum

Bob Robinson
This England
1986
acrylic on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Patrick Procktor
Red Army Ensemble 
1963
oil on canvas
Leicestershire County Council

Robin Philipson
Threnody in Red
1969
oil on canvas
University of Aberdeen, Scotland

You'll find – it when you try to die –
The easier to let go
For recollecting such as went –
You could not spare – you know.

And though their places somewhat filled –
As did their Marble names
With Moss – they never grew so full –
You chose the newer names –

And when this World – sets further back –
As Dying – say it does –
The former love – distincter grows –
And supersedes the fresh –

And Thought of them – so fair invites –
It looks too tawdry Grace
To stay behind – with just the Toys
We bought – to ease their place –

– Emily Dickinson (1862)

Phyllis Milne
Untitled
1986
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

Neil MacPherson
The Secret Lovers
ca. 1985
acrylic on paper
Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayrshire, Scotland

Peter Howson
Saturday Night at Glencorse
1985
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Jeffery Camp
Thames
1986
oil on canvas
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Anthony Farrell
Summer at Night
1982-83
oil on canvas
The Minories, Colchester, Essex

Joe Fan
Ugly Blue Boy in a Blue Room
1987
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

Stephen Conroy
The Enthusiasts
1987
gouache, charcoal, pastel and varnish on paper
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Peter de Francia
Domestic Interior
1978
oil on canvas
Royal College of Art, London
 
Ken Currie
North Kelvin Communist Party Banner
ca. 1983-85
acrylic on canvas
Glasgow Caledonian University