Friday, September 25, 2020

Green Clothing for Painted Figures

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Portrait of a Boy aged Two
1608
oil on panel
Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Anonymous British Painter
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1838-42
oil on canvas
York City Art Gallery

Alexander Davis Cooper
An Interior with Figures
1867
oil on canvas
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside

Harold Knight
The Reader
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries

William Rothenstein
Flower, Fruit and Thorn Piece
ca. 1910
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

Daddy: 1933

If one takes
a walk on a clear sunny
day in middle April,

when the first 
willows are in bloom, 
one may often see

young bumblebee queens
eagerly sipping
nectar from the catkins –

thus begins
the one book written
by Otto Emil Plath.

It is a delightful thing
to pause and watch
these queens, clad

in their costume of rich
velvet, their wings
not yet torn –

he wrote it the year after
Sylvia was born –
by the long foraging

flights which 
they will be obliged 
to take later. 

– Geoffrey Brock (2008)

Otto Müller
Self Portrait
ca. 1917-23
distemper on canvas
York City Art Gallery

Jean Inglis
Miranda Glanville as a Girl
1920
oil on canvas
Burgh House and Hampstead Museum, London

William Bruce Ellis Ranken
Hibiscus Flower
ca. 1922
oil on canvas
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

May Bridges Lee
Self Portrait
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, Warwickshire

William Oliphant Hutchison
Reading Aloud - Margery and the Boys
ca. 1928
oil on canvas
Fleming Collection, London

Ethel Gabain
The Green Dress
ca. 1947
oil on canvas
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire

Mavis Blackburn
Self Portrait
1952
oil on canvas
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Sybil Johnston
Untitled
1971
oil on canvas
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

Shirley Forsyth
Self Portrait
1980
oil on canvas
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design,
University of Dundee

Riduan Tomkins
Jacky
ca. 2005
oil on canvas
Southampton City Art Gallery