Monday, August 31, 2020

"Social Studies" by Twentieth-Century Painters - III

Laura Knight
Take-Off: Interior of a Bomber Aircraft
ca. 1943
oil on canvas
Imperial War Museum, London

Ruskin Spear
Scene in an Underground Train: Workers Returning from Night Shift
1943
oil on panel
Imperial War Museum, London

Frank Brangwyn
Fisherwomen
ca. 1954
oil on canvas
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire

Nadia Benois
Piazza Navona, Rome
1949
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

Moira Maitland
Dressmaking
1955
oil on board
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland

Anthony Fry
Dancing Figures in a Landscape
ca. 1957
oil on canvas
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Robert Medley
Swimming Pool, Gravesend
1960
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

L.S. Lowry
July - The Seaside
1943
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Relativity

I like relativity and quantum theories
because I don't understand them
and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle,
refusing to sit still and be measured;
and as if the atom were an impulsive thing
always changing its mind.

– D.H. Lawrence (1929)

Josef Herman
In the Canteen
1954
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Renato Guttoso
Death of a Hero
1953
oil on canvas
Estorick Collection, London

Leslie Hurry
Palace Dream
1942
mixed media on paper
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Robert Sivell
Noon
1958
oil on panel
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Ben Levene
Musicians
1957
oil on panel
University College London Art Museum

John Kenneth Long
The Reading Room, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
1956
oil on canvas
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry

David Hockney
Man in a Museum
1962
oil on canvas
British Council Collection, London