22 June 2015
On the post this week: paintings and illustrations by the artist Grace Lydia Golden (1904-1993). She was born in East London and in the 1920s won scholarships to study at both Chelsea School of Art...
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This is Hop Pickers at Dawn 1956. Jane Bown was then 31 and by then a superb and unique photographer. As Lord Snowdon said: she was ‘a kind of English Cartier-Bresson’ who produced ‘photography at its...
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In 1858 Augustus Egg, famously, painted a triptych depicting the discovery and disastrous consequences of a wife’s adultery on a middle-class Victorian family. It was very much influenced by Holman...
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~ ‘Anyway, why shouldn’t we have our own show? The RA doesn’t get a bad press because it’s all men’ (Kathleen Guthrie in The Observer in 1962). There is a Liss Llewellyn touring exhibition Fifty Works...
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