Month: March 2011
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William Gear by John McEwen
Lund Humphries, 2003, 129pp, £30, ISBN 0-85331-867-0Review published in the British Art Journal, V, 1, 2004 This is the first major book about Scottish artist William Gear (1915-1997). He trained at Edinburgh College of Art; worked for a while in Léger’s studio; took part in the War; and spent the best part of three years…
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Exhibitions of Neglected British Century Painters: Prunella Clough and Gerald Wilde
March Fine Art Fair, Olympia and Millinery Works Gallery, 2004Review published in the British Art Journal, V, 2, Autumn 2004 Many British artists of the 20th Century did not fit into any of the ‘categories’ which art-world shorthand uses. Or if they did, it was briefly and often coincidentally. Perhaps there is something wrong with…
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Alan Reynolds at Kettle’s Yard
Exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 9 August-21 September 2003Review published in the British Art Journal, IV, 3, 2003 The work represented in this exhibition covers the period 1951 (when the artist was 25) to 1953. For a brief period during the 1950s Reynolds produced the work for which he is known – to the extent…
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William Scott; Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century
William Scott by Norbert Lynton, Thames & Hudson 2004, £40, ISBN 0-500-976376Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century by Theo Snoddy, Merlin publishing, Dublin, 2002, £75, ISBN 1-903582-17-2 Almost at the end of this vast book about William Scott, on page 466, a chronology explains that he was made an “Honorary Doctor of the Royal College…
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Ivon Hitchens, Unseen paintings from the 30’s
Exhibition at Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, 2009 A small exhibition of previously unseen paintings by Ivon Hitchens has been on display at Jonathan Clark Fine Art in London. These were gorgeous, fresh images (the paintings had been rolled up and stored by the artist 70 years ago), very much more varied than the sort…