Today’s FT reviews a show at the Whitney in New York of an American artist called Archibald Motley. His work looks extremely interesting. There is a full Wikipedia entry on him and his career.I had never heard of him before and therefore can claim no knowledge of his work. But as soon as I saw one of the pictures reproduced in [Read More…]
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Watercolour at Tate Britain
Went to this yesterday.Apart from single pictures by Ravilious and Bawden,the most dominant 20th C British work on show is by Edward Burra.He has a number of large and characteristic watercolours on display. In the rearranged displays in Tate Britain it is well worth catching a rarely seen exceptional example of Eileen Agar’s work (Autobiography of an Embryo,1933/4).After her recent [Read More…]
Book Review: Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye
Burra was, in many ways, a typical artist of mid-20th century England, in the sense that his style was personal to him. It is difficult to categorise his work and he seems to have worked largely independently of the mainstream of 20th century art. The work also went through quite a range of styles during his surprisingly (in view of [Read More…]