Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Realist Paintings in the Modernist Era - V

Jan Thorn
Still Life
1958
oil on board
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Edward Seago
The White Kitchen
ca. 1956
oil on canvas
Norfolk Museums

William Charles Penn
A Phantasy in Porcelain
1951
oil on canvas
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Alberto Morrocco
The Blue Bedroom 
1954
oil on board
Glasgow Museums

Cedric Morris
Mottled Iris
ca. 1954
oil on canvas
Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire

Long have I longed to see my love again,
     Still have I wished, but never could obtain it,
     Rather than all the world (if I might gain it)
Would I desire my love's sweet precious gain.
Yet in my soul I see him every day,
     See him, and see his still-stern countenance,
     But (ah) what is of long continuance,
Where majesty and beauty bears the sway?
Sometimes when I imagine that I see him
     (As love is full of foolish fantasies)
     Weening to kiss his lips, as my love's fees,
I feel but air, nothing but air to be him.
     Thus with Ixion, kiss I clouds in vain,
     Thus with Ixion, feel I endless pain.

– Richard Barnfield (1595)

Kathleen Edith Lewis
Bottles
ca. 1950
oil on canvas
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester

Barry Stuart Lee
Little Theatre
1952
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Philip Le Bas
Coronation Preparations, Shoreditch
1953
oil on board
Government Art Collection, London

Duncan Grant
The Bedside Lamp
ca. 1950-55
oil on canvas
Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester

Bernard Dunstan
National Gallery
ca. 1955
oil on canvas
The Box, Plymouth, Devon

William Crosbie
Fruit
ca. 1950
oil on panel
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow

Denys George Wells
The William and Mary Chair
1954
oil on panel
Sunderland Museum and Winter Garden, Tyne-and-Wear

Martin Battersby
Trompe-l'oeil (Art)
ca. 1950-60
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
National Trust, Mompesson House, Salisbury

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Studio Interior
ca. 1950
oil on canvas
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, Edinburgh

Thomas Henslow Barnard
Still Life with Château Calon-Ségur, 1943
1956
oil on panel
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester