Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Painted Views - Twentieth-Century Scenery

attributed to Mildred Anne Butler
Mother and Child by a River
1900
oil on canvas
National Trust, Killerton House, Devon

Samuel Peploe
Barra
ca. 1902-1903
oil on panel
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

George Clausen
The Boy and the Man
1908
oil on canvas
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire

Jean Marchand
Paysage Provençal
ca. 1910
oil on panel
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

Jules-Léon Flandrin
Riders on the Corenc Road
1913
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

John Lavery
Loch Katrine
1913
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Laura Knight
The Cornish Coast
1917
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff, Wales

from A Prayer for My Daughter

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
But Gregory's Wood and one bare hill
Whereby the haystack and roof-levelling wind,
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stayed;
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Because of the great gloom that is in my mind.

I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour,
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
And under the arches of the bridge, and scream
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come
Dancing to a frenzied drum
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

– William Butler Yeats (1919)

Keith Baynes
Landscape
1921
oil on canvas
Charleston House, Lewes, Sussex

Pierre Bonnard
Vernonnet - Paysage près de Giverny
1924
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Philip Connard
Apollo and Daphne
1925
oil on canvas
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Frederick Gore
Teesdale
ca. 1938
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Gilbert Spencer
Budden's Lane
1939
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

William Miller Frazer
A Lincolnshire Fen
ca. 1941
oil on canvas
McManus Gallery, Dundee, Scotland

Paul Nash
Landscape of the Moon's First Quarter
1943
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

Graham Sutherland
Path through Woods
ca. 1958
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery