Saturday, September 26, 2020

Green Surfaces (Paint)

Josef Albers
Study for Homage to the Square
1964
oil on board
Tate Gallery

John Golding
Phaestos – Green
1965-66
acrylic on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Elizabeth Blackadder
Princess Street Gardens, Edinburgh
ca. 1966
oil on canvas
City Art Centre, Edinburgh

John Hoyland
5.2.67
1967
oil on canvas
Yale Center for British Art

Derek Jarman
Landscape with Blue Pool
1967
oil on canvas
Southbank Centre, London

Mark Lancaster
Zapruder
1967
acrylic on canvas
British Council Collection, London

Richard Smith
Amazon 1-5
ca. 1969
acrylic on canvas
Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire

He seems to me equal to gods that man
whoever he is who opposite you
sits and listens close
            to your sweet speaking

and lovely laughing – oh it
puts the heart in my chest on wings
for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking
            is left in me

no: tongue breaks and thin
fire is racing under skin
and in eyes no sight and drumming
            fills ears

and cold sweat holds me and shaking
grips me all, greener than grass
I am and dead – or almost
            I seem to me.

– from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, translated by Anne Carson (2002)

Patrick Heron
Rumbold Vertical Four:
Green in Green with Blue and Red:
September 1970

1970
oil on canvas
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland

Taylor Earnshaw
Mersey Estuary
ca. 1973
oil on panel
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside

Victor Pasmore
The Green Earth
1979-80
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Tate Gallery

Estelle Thompson
Splitting and Stroking
1993
oil on linen
University of Warwick, Coventry

Clare Neasham
Drop
1993
oil on panel
Middlesbrough Institute
of Modern Art

Maria Lalić
History Painting 8 Egyptian. Orpiment
1995
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

Blaise Drummond
Untitled – Green with Cricketers
1999
oil on canvas
The Royal Hospitals, Belfast

Neil Dallas Brown
Glissando Shimmer
(Coast)

2000
oil on canvas
Glasgow School of Art