Sunday, August 4, 2019

Keith Vaughan (1912-1977) - Landscapes (Nineteen Fifties)

Keith Vaughan
Gardens at Night
1951
oil on panel
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Keith Vaughan
Landscape with a Green Church
1951
oil on panel
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Keith Vaughan
Coast above Berwick I
1952
oil on panel
Manchester Art Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Demolished Houses in St John's Wood, No. 2
1953
gouache on paper
Tate Gallery

Keith Vaughan
Landscape
1953
oil on panel
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Keith Vaughan
Berkshire Landscape
ca. 1953
oil on canvas
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, Huddersfield (Yorkshire)

Keith Vaughan
Landscape in Belsize Park, London
1954
oil on canvas
Museums Sheffield (Yorkshire)

Keith Vaughan
Village in Ireland
1954
oil on panel
Government Art Collection, London

Keith Vaughan
Black Rocks and Beach Huts, Whitby Bay
1955
oil on panel
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Keith Vaughan
Untitled
1955
oil on canvas
Norfolk Museums (England)

In a landscape of having to repeat.
Noticing that she does, that he does and so on.
The underlying cause is as absent as rain.
Yet one remembers rain even in its absence and an attendant quiet.
If illusion descends or the very word you've been looking for.
He remembers looking at the photograph,
green and grey squares, undefined.
How perfectly ordinary someone says looking at the same thing, or
I'd like to get to the bottom of that one.
When it is raining it is raining for all time and then it isn't
and when she looked at him, as he remembers it, the landscape moved closer
than ever and she did and now he can hardly remember what it was like.

– Martha Ronk (2004)

Keith Vaughan
Vertical Tree Forms
1956
oil on canvas
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester

Keith Vaughan
Farm in Berkshire
1956
oil on panel
Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Keith Vaughan
Farm in Berkshire
1957
oil on canvas
Girton College, University of Cambridge

Keith Vaughan
Road through a Village
1957
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge