Saturday, September 5, 2020

Serenity Imposed on Twentieth-Century Landscapes

Willis Richard Edwin Hudson
Sherwood Forest
ca. 1900
oil on canvas
Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire

Philip Wilson Steer
Hawes, Wensleydale
ca. 1900-1910
oil on canvas
Courtauld Gallery, London

Hans Iten
Five Trees by a River
ca. 1910
oil on canvas, mounted on panel
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Paul Henry
Leenane
1913
oil on board
Ulster Museum, Belfast

David Muirhead
The Avenue, Woodbridge
1920
oil on canvas
Bradford Museums and Galleries, Yorkshire

Leon Underwood
Path and Gate in a Landscape
1922
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

Malcolm Drummond
Landscape with Trees
ca. 1925
oil on canvas
Ulster Museum, Belfast

Percival Arthur Wise
Evening Colour, Blake Hill Farm
1935
oil on board
Poole Museum, Dorset

Evening! as slow thy placid shades descend,
        Veiling with gentlest hush the landscape still,
        The lonely battlement, the farthest hill
And wood, I think of those who have no friend,
Who now, perhaps, by melancholy led,
        From the broad blaze of day, where pleasure flaunts,
        Retiring, wander to the ring-dove's haunts
Unseen, oft to musing Fancy's eye
        Presenting fairy vales, where the tired mind
        Might rest beyond the murmurs of mankind,
Nor hear the hourly moans of misery!
Alas for man! that Hope's fair views the while
Should smile like you, and perish as they smile!

– William Lisle Bowles (1789)

Charles Ginner
The Rib, Standon, 1939
1939
oil-on-canvas-
Southbank Centre, London

Richard Wyndham
Summer Landscape
1947
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London

Paul Feiler
Cornish Landscape
ca. 1950
oil on board
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Mabel Frances Wickham
Folly Barn
(as it would have appeared around 1820)
1953
oil on board
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester

Edward Pond
A Painting Looking Eastward from Hainault Forest
1954
oil on board
Valence House Museum, London

Edwin Smith
Norfolk Sandpit
1958
oil on board
Chelmsford Museum, Essex

Claude Rogers
Harvest Cornfield
1959
oil on canvas
Government Art Collection, London