Friday, July 24, 2020

Realist Paintings in the Postmodern Era - I

Paul Brason
Michael Maclagan, Richmond Herald
1981
oil on canvas
Trinity College, University of Oxford

Alec Cobbe
Rehanging the Paintings in the Saloon at Kingston Lacy
1985
acrylic on board
National Trust, Kingston Lacy, Dorset

Andrew Grassie
Mr and Mrs Makesack Leitch's House
ca. 1998
oil on canvas
Fleming Collection, London

Paul Haigh
Cyclamen with Apples
ca. 1990
oil on panel
Franklin College, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

David Hepher
Night Flats
1983
oil on canvas
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Gerald McCauley
Interior with Figures (Wilfords)
ca. 1997
oil on canvas
Swanspool House, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

James McDonald
Autochromes and Grapes
1992
oil on canvas
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Brendan Neiland
Cloud Study V
ca. 1994
acrylic on paper
Hampshire County Council, Winchester

from The Cloud

The sanguine sunrise, with his meteor eyes
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack
When the morning star shines dead;
As on the jag of a mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
And when sunset may breathe, from the lit sea beneath,
Its ardours of rest and of love,
And the crimson pall of eve may fall
From the depth of Heaven above,
With wings folded I rest, on mine aƫry nest,
As still as a brooding dove.

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)

Glynn Porteous
Travelling Companions
(after Augustus Leopold Egg)
1999
oil on board
Kirkleatham Museum, Yorkshire

Augustus Leopold Egg
Travelling Companions
1862
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

George Shaw
Scenes from the Passion: The Path on the Edge
1997-98
enamel on panel
Royal College of Art, London

Mark Shields
Skull - bianco e vermiglio
1994
acrylic on linen
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Alan Stones
Portsmouth
1988
oil on canvas
Portsmouth Museums, Hampshire

Joseph Maxwell Stuart
Traquair Bedroom
ca. 1980
oil on canvas
Traquair House, Innerleithen, Scotland

Carol Ann Walls
Brodsworth Hall
1985
oil on card
Brodsworth Hall, Doncaster, Yorkshire