Monday, January 27, 2020

Human and/or Divine Figures in Paint (1920-1930)

William Orpen
Le Chef de l'Hotel Chatham, Paris
ca. 1921
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Stanley Cursiter
Girl with a Jug
1921
oil on canvas
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Glyn Philpot
Italian Soldier
1922
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

John Lavery
Lady Lavery
1922
oil on canvas
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Alfred Lawrence
Académie
1922
oil on canvas
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

William George Gillies
Académie
1922
oil on canvas
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh

Wilfrid de Glehn
Sisters
1923
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Kenneth Forbes
The Earring
1924
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

James Durden
Betty and Chow
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Keswick Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria

Epitaph for a Darling Lady

All her hours were yellow sands,
Blown in foolish whorls and tassels,
Slipping warmly through her hands,
Patted into little castles.

Shiny day on shiny day
Tumble in a rainbow clutter,
As she flipped them all away,
Sent them spinning down the gutter.

Leave for her a red young rose,
Go your way, and save your pity,
She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty.

– Dorothy Parker (1925)

Charles Haslewood Shannon
The Willow Pond
ca. 1923
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Georges Braque
Reclining Nude
1925
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Dod Procter
Clara
ca. 1926
oil on canvas
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent

Stanley Spencer
Soldiers Washing
1927
oil on canvas
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester

Henry Scott Tuke
Study for Aquamarine
ca. 1927
oil on canvas
Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth, Cornwall

Christopher Wood
Seated and Standing Nudes
1927
oil on canvas
Jerwood Collection, London