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 |