Friday, July 10, 2020

Right Angles, Strong Colors, No Objects

James Atherton
Squares
ca. 1977
acrylic on board
Dundee College, Scotland

Sybille Berger
Not Titled
1997
acrylic on canvas
British Council Collection, London

Trevor Clarke
Rotated Variations in Relation to a Constant, Series 2, T.C.O. Variations III B4
1980
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

John Hoyland
3.8.68.
1968
acrylic on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Callum Innes
Exposed Painting, Dioxazene Mauve, Violet, Scheveningen Black
2004
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Callum Innes
Untitled No. 51
2011
oil on canvas
Tate Modern, London
 
The Jungle Husband

Dearest Evelyn, I often think of you
Out with the guns in the jungle stew
Yesterday I hittapotamus
I put the measurements down for you but they got lost in the fuss
It's not a good thing to drink out here
You know, I've practically given it up dear.
Tomorrow I am going alone a long way
Into the jungle. It is all gray
But green on top
Only sometimes when a tree has fallen
The sun comes down plop, it is quite appalling.
You never want to go in a jungle pool
In the hot sun, it would be the act of a fool
Because it's always full of anacondas, Evelyn, not looking ill-fed
I'll say. So no more now, from your loving husband, Wilfred.

– Stevie Smith (ca. 1957)

Mark Lancaster
Bloomingdale
1965
oil on canvas
Leicestershire County Council

Mark Lancaster
Cambridge Violet
1968
acrylic on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Ben Nicholson
1940-43 (two forms)
1940-43
oil on canvas
National Museum Cardiff (Wales)

Ben Nicholson
1938 (composition)
1938
gouache on board
Yale Center for British Art

Ben Nicholson
1940-42 (two forms)
1940-42
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery

Ben Nicholson
Painting 1937
1937
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Stephen Snoddy
Untitled 78
2015
mixed media on board
Priseman Seabrook Collection, Wivenhoe, Essex

Trevor Sutton
Joseph
1990
oil on board
British Council Collection, London

Erik van der Grijn
Hard Shoulder
1974
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast