Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Monochrome Paintings - Twentieth Century

Paul Winstanley
TV Room V
1997
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London

Ivor Williams
Soldier
ca, 1940-45
oil on canvas
Aberystwyth University School of Art
Museum and Galleries, Wales

Patrick Procktor
Al
1992
oil on foamcore
Yale Center for British Art

Ernest Young Procter
Witches at Play in the Night Sky
ca. 1920
gouache and pastel on paper
Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, Cornwall

Robert Rauschenberg
Almanac
1962
oil, acrylic, and silkscreen on canvas
Tate Gallery

from republic

and the leveling of the land, enduing it in sameness, cured malaria
as the standing water in low glades disappeared,
                                                          as the muskegs drained
typhoid and yellow fever decreased
                                   even milksickness abated
thanks to the rise of the feeding pen
                          cattle no longer grazing on white snakeroot

vanquished:     the germs that bedeviled the rural areas
                                                            the rural areas also
vanquished:     made monochromatic and mechanized, made suburban

– D.A. Powell (2008)

Isabel Rawsthorne
Male Baboon
ca. 1964
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Charles Shearer
Study of Classical Bust
ca. 1976
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

John Turner
Satyr (after a Cast from the Antique)
1942
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

John Singer Sargent
Sketch of Dame Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth
1906
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, London

Anthony Fry
Dance White
1960
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Victor Davidson
Study of a Cast after the Antique
1970
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Vilhelm Hammershøi
Royal Palace Church in Copenhagen
1910
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Charles Maussion
Walking Man No. 3
1950
oil and crayon on canvas
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
University of East Anglia, Norwich

Ambrose McEvoy
In a Mirror
ca. 1911
watercolor
Tate Gallery

Alan Lumsden
Untitled
(Stuffed Crane on Kitchen Chair)
1970
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen