Monday, March 9, 2020

Academic Figure Studies in Paint (Great Britain)

Andrew Conkie
Académie
ca. 1958
oil on board
Edinburgh College of Art

Sylvia Wishart
Académie
ca. 1956
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Alexander Cree
Académie
1950
oil on canvas
Edinburgh College of Art

Margaret Marshall
Académie
1927
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Figure

You want a piece of me
to see, from the flesh of me,
a flesh from within me
no one's ever seen, not me,
nor the mother or the lovers of me.
A piece that will have been me
but then no longer me,
instead a synecdoche of me,

or possibly metonymy,
a figure of speech of me,
in contiguity or association with me,
a part for the whole of me,
a sliver that once was me,
so you might perceive the end of me.

– Robert Wrigley (2019)

Robin Bartlett
Académie
1925
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Allan Gwynne-Jones
Académie
1922
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Albert Cooper
Académie
ca. 1920
oil on board
University of Reading, Berkshire

C.E. Roberts
Académie
1920
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

John White
Académie
1920
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Ralph Chubb
Académie
1919
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Neville Lewis
Académie
1916
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Alfred Munnings
Académie
ca. 1901
oil on canvas
Munnings Art Museum, Colchester, Essex

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot
Académie
1909
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Harold Knight
Académie
ca. 1896
oil on canvas
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

Kate Ethel Cowderoy
Académie
ca. 1895
oil on canvas
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire