Saturday, July 11, 2020

Irregular Shapes, Strong Colors, Suggested Objects- I

Barry Thompson Atkinson
Harvest
1960
oil on paper
Ulster Museum, Belfast

James Bingham
Twisted Roots
1994
oil on canvas
Falmouth University, Cornwall

Basil Blackshaw
The Barn (Blue II)
1991-92
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Sylbert Bolton
Untitled
ca. 1980-88
oil on canvas
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands

Ian Brady
Untitled
1981
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Jeffery Camp
Sunset
2007
oil on canvas
British Council Collection, London

Grant Clifford
The Tongue in New York
1995
oil on canvas
Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh

from Thoughts about the Person from Porlock

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing,
I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant,
Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting
To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting
With various mixtures of human character which goes best,
All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us.

– Stevie Smith (ca. 1957)

Kenneth Cozens
Fragments
1979
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Barbara Delaney
Like Summer Tempests
1994
acrylic on canvas
Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Mario Dubsky
Laocoönese
ca. 1968
oil on canvas
University College London Art Museum

Alexander Fraser
Guild Street No. 3
1983
oil on canvas
Chelmsford Museum, Essex

Anthony Fry
Italian Landscape V
ca. 1965
oil on board
Southwark Art Collection, London

Germán Gárgano
Turmoil
1995
acrylic and gouache on paper
Essex Collection of Art from Latin America, Colchester

Patrick Heron
Cobalt and Indigo in Ultramarine: January 1967
1967
oil on canvas
University of Stirling, Scotland

Patrick Heron
Red Yellow Brown
1964
oil on canvas
Portsmouth Museums, Hampshire