tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79120527340763085692024-03-12T18:11:16.378-07:00James RussellJames Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.comBlogger348125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-67996013417017417322024-02-13T10:14:00.000-08:002024-02-13T10:14:43.086-08:00NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! TIRZAH GARWOOD AT DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nUaR3__SqmtxpppJnzrcE4XaoqnFet4kez0JYXcvLjgbKZBY5DJHzcRop5jdzmaKvOoS50MkuZzRFiFi2NveH4ulOqtnw_o_kfh2kXQ7enS44ayiIXrIb2zbmI1cG-I5wcAACXy9HF47pTh2_zHrcbfeh5QRXQrW9TN_K52Nyzi2EpKJ7jK7PmSSPrh_/s600/tirzah-garwood-hornet-and-wild-rose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="600" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6nUaR3__SqmtxpppJnzrcE4XaoqnFet4kez0JYXcvLjgbKZBY5DJHzcRop5jdzmaKvOoS50MkuZzRFiFi2NveH4ulOqtnw_o_kfh2kXQ7enS44ayiIXrIb2zbmI1cG-I5wcAACXy9HF47pTh2_zHrcbfeh5QRXQrW9TN_K52Nyzi2EpKJ7jK7PmSSPrh_/w640-h478/tirzah-garwood-hornet-and-wild-rose.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tirzah Garwood, Hornet and Wild Rose, 1950 (Towner)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Another lengthy silence and another valid excuse... I've been hard at work putting together the first major museum exhibition devoted to the art of Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) since the memorial exhibition shortly after her death. </p><p><i><a href="https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2024/november/tirzah-garwood-beyond-ravilious/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious</a></i> will open at Dulwich Picture Gallery in November, and I am absolutely delighted to be bringing the work of this remarkable artist to the audience she deserves. I was going to say 'unknown' artist but in fact Garwood is familiar to quite a number of people, thanks to her autobiography <a href="https://persephonebooks.co.uk/products/long-live-great-bardfield?variant=31828821934147" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Long Live Great Bardfield</i> </a>and to Margy Kinmonth's film <i><a href="https://www.foxtrotfilms.com/films/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War</a>. </i></p><p>Some of the wood engravings she made in her early twenties are also well-known, having been reproduced here and there, but those were a small - if brilliant - part of her artistic achievement. In the 1930s and 1940s she made exquisite decorative papers using a marbling technique that was all her own and went on, in the few years she had between the end of World War Two and her death from breast cancer, to create a series of compelling house constructions or dioramas and a group of hauntingly beautiful oil paintings.</p><p>The last twenty of these Garwood painted in her last year, when she knew she was dying and yet was somehow able to paint works that are at once radiant and uncanny. They are not at all like her first husband's watercolours, but she did share with him an 'innocent eye' that was a lot less innocent than it seemed, and an ability to get to the very essence of things.</p><p>Roll on November!<br /></p><p><a href="https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/2024/november/tirzah-garwood-beyond-ravilious/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious</i> opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery</a> in November, almost ten years after my exhibition <i>Ravilious</i> opened there. I'll be advertising an online lecture to introduce the show soon...<br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-59272560523586186392023-11-05T05:11:00.001-08:002023-11-05T05:11:32.947-08:00ERIC RAVILIOUS: NEW YEAR SNOW<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNKhku0YfO6gUSXFiWsw0e7LFMcIRAnpqpC2biBGV-1h8y_bpt7ljKmD6P0DfARUwB28TSBPZ0BYEeemynzC7JIlEwMcGNPK3yjU20KNJRVe3OoW9Nqm1bT_RrA7vVDlyIQS9eUcd23QxA5vzoiWWZkMEKcY57pjdNgIWwh4r5WHEu3Tr7aGfEaiCDhmS5/s840/new%20year%20snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="840" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNKhku0YfO6gUSXFiWsw0e7LFMcIRAnpqpC2biBGV-1h8y_bpt7ljKmD6P0DfARUwB28TSBPZ0BYEeemynzC7JIlEwMcGNPK3yjU20KNJRVe3OoW9Nqm1bT_RrA7vVDlyIQS9eUcd23QxA5vzoiWWZkMEKcY57pjdNgIWwh4r5WHEu3Tr7aGfEaiCDhmS5/w640-h550/new%20year%20snow.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Ravilious, New Year Snow, 1938, watercolour</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><i> </i></p><p><i>I wrote the note below for Dreweatts, who were selling </i>New Year Snow<i> in their recent auction, </i>Robert Kime: The Personal Collection<i>... </i><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">This atmospheric watercolour depicts a picturesque valley in
the Welsh borders and, at the same time, shows us a master at work.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Early in 1938 Ravilious travelled to Capel-y-Ffin, a hamlet in
the Honddu valley not far from the ruins of Llanthony Priory. Having concentrated
on illustration and design for a couple of years he was at last free to paint
watercolours, and to take his time doing so. He had booked a room in the hamlet’s
solitary farmhouse for two months, and looked forward to exploring a landscape
that was wilder than his native Sussex.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Steeped as he was in the English watercolour tradition,
Ravilious was well aware that JMW Turner, John Sell Cotman and other luminaries
had painted the valley before him, although those earlier Romantic artists had tended
to focus on the ruined abbey. A more recent visitor was artist-poet David Jones,
who had stayed with Eric Gill and his entourage in Capel-y-Ffin in the 1920s. Ravilious
admired the strong modern line and delicate palette of Jones’s watercolours, which
present subjects similar to this but in a very different style.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In <i>New Year Snow</i> Ravilious presented a recognisable
view south-east along the valley, towards the distinctive buttress of Loxidge
Tump. He was no topographer, however, and here he redirected the course of the
river so that it bends across the composition, roughly mirroring the curve of
hills against the sky. Water, land and sky are painted with remarkable economy,
with only the lightest of washes across the hilltops. Mostly the watercolour has
been applied in single strokes, often with a dry brush. The white paper showing
through suggests here rough grass dusted with snow and there the shimmer of
moving water, while conveying at the same time a feeling of light-heartedness
and freedom.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In place of the ruins beloved of Turner’s generation, we
have the kind of man-made object that delighted Ravilious: a sheep feeder on
wheels set centre stage and at a precarious angle. This positioning and the
clarity of the draughtsmanship lend a slightly dreamlike quality to the scene. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In May 1939 Ravilious held his third exhibition of
watercolours at the prestigious London gallery of Arthur Tooth and Son, the show
that cemented his reputation. In <i>The Observer</i>, Jan Gordon praised
Ravilious’s extraordinary technique, which made the most mundane object ‘appear
as something magic, almost mystic, distilled out of the ordinary everyday.’
Twenty-seven watercolours are listed in the catalogue; <i>New Year Snow</i> is
No. 1.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>I can't remember the exact figure, but the work ended up selling for over £300,000... </i>New Year Snow<i> is featured in my book </i><a href="https://www.themainstonepress.com/mainstone-books/jhf34kcag0ekvdi9gs4sbb06183nnb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist</a><i><a href="https://www.themainstonepress.com/mainstone-books/jhf34kcag0ekvdi9gs4sbb06183nnb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">, published by The Mainstone Press.</a></i><br /></p>
James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-22445968729597224072023-10-02T04:48:00.000-07:002023-10-02T04:48:18.965-07:00Boutiques! Boutiques! Boutiques!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglF_0lKOVcOXJPJMqu6yuZZS27PUwEkcmyYvY85hkgws5QFXCvBC6YnRG418Y8fsgY1I-i6CRurekxaUA2CltrJzEFe-dD3hoVk6HhYRCiEp7j-AjJL0mKX80776hWlu06XGAbX5H0F7nh7Ib070HrqYXeD6DLCGVsF0mvSksVcd-VjWgRE8DDHBZ4mpN4/s731/phonograph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglF_0lKOVcOXJPJMqu6yuZZS27PUwEkcmyYvY85hkgws5QFXCvBC6YnRG418Y8fsgY1I-i6CRurekxaUA2CltrJzEFe-dD3hoVk6HhYRCiEp7j-AjJL0mKX80776hWlu06XGAbX5H0F7nh7Ib070HrqYXeD6DLCGVsF0mvSksVcd-VjWgRE8DDHBZ4mpN4/w630-h640/phonograph.jpg" width="630" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Gramophones', from <i>Boutiques</i>, illustrated by Lucien Boucher<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Exciting news for lovers of astonishing books: Tim Mainstone has just published the third in his remarkable trilogy of books celebrating both a golden age of illustration and a glorious epoch in the history of shopping. Details of the <i>Boutiques</i> trilogy are available on<a href="https://www.themainstonepress.com/mainstone-books/pre-order-boutiques-by-lucien-boucher" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> the Mainstone Press website,</a> but if you want to get a real sense of what these three beautiful volumes are like, why not come along to our special launch event on 12 October? It's at <a href="https://www.maggs.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maggs Bros</a>, the antiquarian bookseller, on London's Bedford Square, and starts at 6pm.</p><p>Each book takes as its starting point an innovative illustrated book of shops published in Paris in the 1920s: <i>Boutiques</i> (1925) and <i>Boutiques de la Foire</i> (1926), with colour lithographs by Lucien Boucher, and <i>Boutiques Litteraires</i>, with illustrations by Henri Guilac (1925). Each Mainstone edition features captions by Andrew Stewart and an array of historical photos, archive materials and artworks brought together in typically elegant, witty style by designers <a href="https://webbandwebb.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Webb & Webb</a>. Literary flaneuse <a href="https://www.laurenelkin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lauren Elkin </a>wrote an accompanying essay for the Guilac book, while fairground historian Pascal Jacob did the same for <i>Boutiques de la Foire</i> and I wrote on the first Boucher book. Print aficionado <a href="http://www.neilphilip.com/Neil%20Philip.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neil Philip </a>provided for each volume a succinct print and production history.</p><p>To me, these books are primarily guides for the time-travelling armchair flaneur: books to marvel at and dream in. It's important to note, however, just how little has been written about the supremely talented Boucher before now, in any language. Most of the material I drew on in my essay (with help from my A-level French) was unearthed by Tim Mainstone, who made it is his mission to discover every known fact, story or piece of gossip about this brilliant precursor to Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden. In fact Tim spent years trawling obscure databases and publications for information not only about Boucher but also about publisher Marcel Seheur and - last, but definitely not least - the brilliant author Pierre Mac Orlan, whose waspish prose poems add a strange, dark mystery to the original book. They are included in the new edition, alongside translations by <a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/shaun-whiteside/22285" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shaun Whiteside</a>.</p><p>Tim has published some wonderful books over the past two decades, but I'm not sure anything compares in scope, ambition and sheer wonderment to the <i>Boutiques</i> trilogy. If you'd like to see this work of art for yourself and hear a bit more about how it was created, come along on the 12th. You're in for a treat.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> <br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-66371824735091250022023-04-26T02:05:00.000-07:002023-10-24T06:32:06.960-07:00SOUTINE | KOSSOFF ON FILM!<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/817232938?h=cc06c1c435" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/817232938">Soutine I Kossoff exhibition at Hastings Contemporary</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user18736721">Hastings Contemporary</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-23254774929077288532023-03-20T06:26:00.000-07:002023-03-20T06:26:02.785-07:00Soutine | Kossoff opening soon at Hastings Contemporary!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvr23R153hq9wcvDykK5Xy45WDHoIt6feXDILw30IebGNhHWLCHS-u1XckIKovR0QxXELrvZjKKiwxXESgrn7eUKoDw2SQeiwOUldcD8apf6tdsTJNbOvpzYIh0gMq97MSwSbNrlz6r-s5fwnUsrtH6yss-A5lhNUCBmXdn5kXqLtxTzHN8an2_y_0Q/s1280/thumbnail_SK%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1062" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQvr23R153hq9wcvDykK5Xy45WDHoIt6feXDILw30IebGNhHWLCHS-u1XckIKovR0QxXELrvZjKKiwxXESgrn7eUKoDw2SQeiwOUldcD8apf6tdsTJNbOvpzYIh0gMq97MSwSbNrlz6r-s5fwnUsrtH6yss-A5lhNUCBmXdn5kXqLtxTzHN8an2_y_0Q/w531-h640/thumbnail_SK%20cover.jpg" width="531" /></a></div> <br /><p></p><p>The prolonged lack of activity on this site is due, not to laziness as you might think, but to me having been working flat out on the exhibition opening at the end of next week at Hastings Contemporary... </p><p><i>SOUTINE | KOSSOFF</i><br />HASTINGS CONTEMPORARY<br />1 APRIL – 24 SEPT 2023<br /><br />Opening at Hastings Contemporary in April 2023,<i> Soutine | Kossoff</i> pairs two major figures of 20th century painting: one a master of the School of Paris, the other a master of the School of London. <i>Soutine | Kossoff</i> is the first museum exhibition to explore the artistic relationship between British artist Leon Kossoff (1926-2019) and Belarus-born painter Chaim Soutine (1893-1943). Undertaken with the full support of the Kossoff estate, it brings together important loans from public and private collections in the UK and overseas, providing a fascinating follow-up to The Barnes Foundation’s 2021 show <i>Soutine / De Kooning</i>. </p><p>The discovery of Soutine’s paintings in the early 1950s was a significant moment for Kossoff, who was already finding his way towards the kind of direct and expressive use of paint he saw in his predecessor’s work. Soutine grew up in Belarus before migrating to Paris as a young man, while Kossoff was born and raised in London, his parents having arrived there from Ukraine as children. Although their life experiences were very different, the two artists shared a Russian Jewish heritage which perhaps brought a particular cultural sensibility to their work. To create transcendent works from the stuff of everyday life became Kossoff’s mission, as it had been Soutine’s.</p><p>The main focus of <i>Soutine | Kossoff</i> is on the areas of interest shared by both artists: landscape and portraiture. The exhibition features seminal landscapes painted by Soutine in southern France in the early 1920s, with highlights including <i>Paysage aux cyprès</i>, c1922, and <i>Cagnes Landscape with Tree</i>, c1925-26 (Tate). From Kossoff come major paintings of railway junctions, building sites and other scenes of unexpected beauty found in north and north-west London, among them <i>Willesden Junction, Summer, No.2</i>, 1966 (Alfred East Art Gallery) and <i>Demolition of the Old House, Dalston Junction, Summer</i>, 1974 (Tate). <br />Visitors will have a rare opportunity to view Kossoff’s stunning <i>Nude on a Red Bed</i>, 1972, alongside works such as his powerful<i> Head of Seedo</i>, 1964. A major group of Soutine portraits includes <i>Le Petit Pâtissier</i>, c1927, <i>Young Woman in a White Blouse</i>, c1923 (Courtauld Institute) and <i>Le Valet de Chambre</i>, c1927.</p><p>A catalogue with top notch colour reproductions of all works is being published by Hastings Contemporary. It features an essay by yours truly and another by art historian Simonetta Fraquelli, who co-curated <i>Soutine / De Kooning</i>, and it was designed by <a href="http://www.illuminatibooks.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lucy Morton</a>, previously designer of my Ravilious and Bawden catalogues for Dulwich Picture Gallery. </p><p><i>Soutine | Kossoff</i> opens to the public on 1 April and runs until September. All the info you need is on the <a href="https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/soutine-kossoff/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hastings Contemporary website</a>. Hope you can get to Sussex this summer!<br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-77315455228133100572022-11-29T07:56:00.002-08:002022-11-29T07:56:43.068-08:00Paul Nash's English Pyramids<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUE3qBpdBwLNDomSbrjDb6Pe-yO8eEJfQJjGuNcZnikbmA8lRbBhuktkXjLvzN376AtR0J6QZRmoL6KzoW6TTrtic18qBwkAtJDoOUrIrQGtvcTlO0-MpNnJj7IAQQIk7_Fp3f-OzSR_-jnRgsiJEHngW7zQLyH2hfDJftseDfRhj2lbTz_z1vTS-bFQ/s1600/s-l1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1228" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUE3qBpdBwLNDomSbrjDb6Pe-yO8eEJfQJjGuNcZnikbmA8lRbBhuktkXjLvzN376AtR0J6QZRmoL6KzoW6TTrtic18qBwkAtJDoOUrIrQGtvcTlO0-MpNnJj7IAQQIk7_Fp3f-OzSR_-jnRgsiJEHngW7zQLyH2hfDJftseDfRhj2lbTz_z1vTS-bFQ/w491-h640/s-l1600.jpg" width="491" /></a></div> <p></p><p>If you're an admirer of Paul Nash then this new book may already be on your radar, but I would also recommend it to people who don't know much about the debonair but sometimes challenging British artist. <i>Pyramids in England</i> has the two main characteristics of a good art book: a wide range of images that are excellently reproduced; and just the right amount of brisk, readable text.</p><p>The author has managed <a href="https://www.nashclumps.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a website dedicated to Nash and his pyramids</a>, ie the Wittenham Clumps, for some years. I thought the book might be a bit Clump-centric, but though the twin hills south of Oxford certainly loom large there is more than enough added material about Nash's life and work to make it compelling reading. Some of the photos were new to me. In one, the character of his wife Margaret (nee Odeh) shines through. In another, we see Nash among his extended family, a sturdy English group who must have found his career quite baffling.</p><p>Anyway, enough from me. If you have a lover of Modern British art in your life, you really should buy them this for Christmas.</p><p>You can buy the book at good bookshops, like <a href="https://pallantbookshop.com/product/pyramids-in-england-paul-nash-and-the-wittenham-clumps/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this one</a>. <br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-31738521953287261652022-11-15T08:15:00.000-08:002022-11-15T08:15:23.636-08:00Ravilious Pilot Boat up for auction!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUNtuzq7wYyY5rhE2RHEl3iBdY9yI-bzotJuqIqKJqlGRu6794tmqjofFqWtfOE5YxNlbiVJig0hvHTTaOlXHl-vrfG8S7dxr3Ad3C0Pk2fGFrVMwWy6VX0uFaU0BO3hZcxWSYAnYip8XVgliUGH3UJXr5lVUVnRyDu6YK8oPn6hWJywtnIDIAVvPow/s800/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="800" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRUNtuzq7wYyY5rhE2RHEl3iBdY9yI-bzotJuqIqKJqlGRu6794tmqjofFqWtfOE5YxNlbiVJig0hvHTTaOlXHl-vrfG8S7dxr3Ad3C0Pk2fGFrVMwWy6VX0uFaU0BO3hZcxWSYAnYip8XVgliUGH3UJXr5lVUVnRyDu6YK8oPn6hWJywtnIDIAVvPow/w640-h462/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Ravilious, Pilot Boat, 1939<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Having spent some time in a private collection in the United States, <i>Pilot Boat</i> is back in the UK and up for auction at Sotheby's. I'm not sure I've ever seen this watercolour in person so I'm looking forward to visiting on Sunday, when I join Frances Christie and Simon Martin for a panel discussion about Place in Modern British Art (see previous post for details).</p><p>A few years ago I wrote the following to accompany the illustration of <i>Pilot Boat</i> in <i>Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist</i>. As usual Tim Mainstone and I spent a long time pondering which works to include in the book - a process you certainly wouldn't describe as painful - eventually picking this one as an atmospheric depiction of a French Channel port on the eve of war. In many instances we can revisit the sites of Ravilious watercolours and find them unchanged, but not in this case...<br /></p><p><i>If Ravilious painted an interior scene on a painting trip you can be sure that the weather made working outdoors impossible. Le Havre was so cold he could only work outside for short periods, so it was as well that he had picked a hotel in such a good location, just 100 yards from the Quai George V. He was first captivated by the sleek lines and yellow masts of a steam yacht belonging to the Rothschild family - ‘the most elegant boat I ever saw’ - but, as he reported, ‘there are splendid boats wherever you go, and striped and red buoys and a special green water, a grassy green’. </i></p><p><i>Ordinary people were fascinated to see an artist at work but, with the French newspapers dominated by discussion of the imminent conflict, Ravilious was treated with suspicion by officials who perhaps took him for a spy. ‘A gendarme questioned me closely,’ he reported on one occasion, ‘but retired beaten by my Pigeon French.’ Within a year Ravilious would be questioned far more aggressively by armed British servicemen as he drew port scenes in his capacity of war artist.</i></p><p><i>For the people of Le Havre the anticipated Nazi invasion was swift. On June 13 1940, as thousands of Allied troops evacuated by sea, German forces entered the city, where they remained in occupation for the next four years. During this time the garrison turned France’s second largest port into a massive fortress, and this spelled disaster for the city when Allied forces landed in Normandy in June 1944. Beginning on 5th September RAF bombers and naval guns blasted the city, reducing the centre to rubble and filling the waterways with wrecks. The port Edward Wadsworth had known for 30 years, and which he described in correspondence with Ravilious as ‘a real gold mine of matter’, was destroyed.</i></p><p><i>The return of peace brought to Le Havre the renowned architect and town planner Auguste Perret, who set about building a new city over the ruins of the old, using modern materials with panache in a 20-year project of unparalleled ambition. Indeed, it has been recognised as such by UNESCO, which in 2005 designated the rebuilt port a World Heritage Site. As a reminder of the old port we have this painting, almost a winter version of Seurat’s luminous harbour scenes, with a similar spaciousness and even the same mooring posts. In the low sunlight the clean lines of the pilot boat stand out against a background that seems almost on the point of melting away, with ghostly figures dimly perceptible on the far side of the water the only sign of life. </i></p><p><i>A fine marine study, the painting is also filled with foreboding; ‘I shall be surprised,’ he wrote on returning home, ‘If there isn’t a war by the middle of May and drawing and all other sensible things fade into the background, though Tooth’s assure me their business will carry on as usual.’</i></p><p>This is an extract from <a href="https://www.themainstonepress.com/mainstone-books/jhf34kcag0ekvdi9gs4sbb06183nnb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Ravilious in Pictures: A Travelling Artist (Mainstone Press)</i></a>. <i> </i></p><p>Pilot Boat is <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/modern-british-irish-art/pilot-boat?locale=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lot 12 in Sotheby's auction of Modern British & Irish Art</a>, which will be held on 23 November. You can view the lots between 18-23 Nov. </p><p>I'll be talking about <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/sothebys-talks-modern-british-irish-art-week?locale=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Place in Modern British Art with Frances Christie and Simon Martin</a> at 1pm on Sunday 20 Nov.<br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-2294366507186976032022-11-11T06:30:00.000-08:002022-11-11T06:30:30.839-08:00Talking Books: Revisiting Modern British Art<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggq5z1kBQcMbAkQNcZjD4BzkmV98YYsleN4ItXsPq43Xm-yrjeFdFO6fVJJiR9n3mA4BQMcIv7m_Vf5-JmZxS-Tcx4MUmW9SXWx1axe43JD_0GdFJSQYk8bStPc5XAcEwdddzEZ9_jd48qF2b2dOjG-rqu3lilOjUziESPVIFZIbhhJhX0zqIGj6PVVg/s1000/revisiting%20mod%20brit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="778" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggq5z1kBQcMbAkQNcZjD4BzkmV98YYsleN4ItXsPq43Xm-yrjeFdFO6fVJJiR9n3mA4BQMcIv7m_Vf5-JmZxS-Tcx4MUmW9SXWx1axe43JD_0GdFJSQYk8bStPc5XAcEwdddzEZ9_jd48qF2b2dOjG-rqu3lilOjUziESPVIFZIbhhJhX0zqIGj6PVVg/w498-h640/revisiting%20mod%20brit.jpg" width="498" /></a></div><p></p><p>This time last year I was busy writing the introductory essay for a remarkable book. Revisiting Modern British Art is not a traditional art history book, being neither a historical survey nor a study of a particular artist or group. Rather, as the title suggests, it is a book which revisits a familiar period and seeks to understand it differently. Each of the writers brings their own expertise and experience, individual qualities they use to explore the subject in new and fascinating ways. The effect is kaleidoscopic and inspiring in a way few art books are. </p><p>Editor Jo Baring (of the Ingram Collection) has brought together an eclectic group of writers, each of whom approaches the subject of modern British art in a different way. So we have Alexandra Harris on artistic responses to World War One, Laura Smith discussing British Surrealism, Simon Martin exploring Queer Pastoral in the 1940s, Laura Freeman on art and the domestic in World War Two, Harriet Baker discussing women artists in St Ives; James Rawlin on British sculpture in the 1950s and Elena Crippa exploring the diverses uses of collage by artists in 1960s London.</p><p>This first group are clustered into a section subtitled Moments, which is followed by Structures. While James Purdon examines the role of corporate and public patronage in modern British art, Jo Baring explores the part played by curators and collectors. Hammad Nasar asks searching questions about artistic Britishness, Natalie Rudd teases out relationships between contemporary artists and their predecessors and Aindrea Emelife makes a personal call for a more expansive British art.</p><p>This is definitely a book to have on the bedside table and dip into repeatedly, not least because it is so beautifully illustrated. Anyone who has ever produced an art book will know that the cost of images can be prohibitive. Well, no expense has been spared here, and the pictures are every bit as lively and eclectic as the text.</p><p>Over the next few weeks Jo will be presiding over a series of events, in which she will discuss the book with a number of her fellow contributors. You can find info about all of these on the <a href="https://ingramcollection.com/talks-programme-revisiting-modern-british-art/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ingram Collection website</a>. </p><p>I'll be at Sotheby's in London on Sunday 20 November, discussing <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/sothebys-talks-modern-british-irish-art-week?locale=zh-Hant" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Sense of Place in Modern British Art </a>with Simon Martin and Frances Christie. Then, on Friday 25 November, I'll be joining Jo Baring and Sara Cooper at Towner, Eastbourne. We'll be going <a href="https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/events/behind-the-scenes-of-the-museum" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Behind the Scenes of the Museum</a>, which sounds intriguing - I do love a museum store!</p><p>You can find info and tickets for these events via the links above - hope to see you there!<br /></p><p> <br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-46686101950159426292022-09-18T13:21:00.000-07:002022-09-18T13:21:29.825-07:00New Exhibition: Changing Times at The Higgins Bedford!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQ898YUKKeP_bpbq62RQTqCSw4sH0cjPar7ZpRrgfmAEDm8DZuSbLiC4wGQtxhfFBssxExeicUDnsd2YCOOHplHhOSU5kOog1LXJOB5jCIUMjpqriy1rmI9-cSZdKT75EX7vglVu6z03nfHY4cbgTZ64yRCuC3Vk45E8QM6X7HuXJFwnqTRSc8krLkA/s4961/Poster%20-%20Changing%20Times%20Landscape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="4961" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQ898YUKKeP_bpbq62RQTqCSw4sH0cjPar7ZpRrgfmAEDm8DZuSbLiC4wGQtxhfFBssxExeicUDnsd2YCOOHplHhOSU5kOog1LXJOB5jCIUMjpqriy1rmI9-cSZdKT75EX7vglVu6z03nfHY4cbgTZ64yRCuC3Vk45E8QM6X7HuXJFwnqTRSc8krLkA/w640-h452/Poster%20-%20Changing%20Times%20Landscape.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">From Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and Paul Nash to Elisabeth Frink,
David Hockney and Lucian Freud some of the biggest names in British art are
coming together in a vibrant, wide-ranging exhibition at The Higgins Bedford that
explores the history of British art of the 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup>
centuries.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Changing
Times: A Century of Modern British Art</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> brings together more than 80 works from the
Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art and The Higgins’ own
collection, with paintings, works on paper and sculpture from some of the
biggest names in British art. From The Higgins also come a dozen works on paper
by major European artists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Changing Times: A Century of Modern British Art</span></i><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-themecolor: text1;"> will be
the first large-scale exhibition since the reopening of The Higgins, and is supported by The
Friends of The Higgins Bedford.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-themecolor: text1;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Among the
highlights are several powerful monumental sculptures, including <i>Riace
Figure</i> (1986) and <i>Walking Madonna</i> (1981) by Elisabeth Frink, and
Ralph Brown’s <i>Meat Porters (1959)</i>. There are lithographs by Eric
Ravilious from his <i>High Street</i> series and a pair of his watercolours, <i>Observation
Post</i> (1939) and <i>Rye Harbour (1938)</i>. Lucien Freud’s stunning 1945
drawing <i>Botanical Gardens</i> hangs alongside works John Craxton’s exquisite
<i>Yellow Estuary Landscape</i> (1943). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A Cezanne
lithograph, <i>Large Bathers</i> (1896), introduces a section devoted to
figures in the landscape, which includes Edward Burra’s <i>Hop Pickers Who’ve
Lost Their Mothers</i> (1924), John Minton’s <i>Hop Pickers</i> (1945), the
early Paul Nash watercolour <i>Fruit Pickers</i> (1916) and <i>The Bathing Pool</i>
(1923) by Ethel Walker, a highly regarded interwar artist who deserves to be
better known. The same is true of Frances Hodgkins, whose work is also featured
in <i>Changing Times</i>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another
section explores the artist’s self-portrait, with David Hockney’s tongue-in-cheek
etching <i>Artist and Model</i> alongside works by Kathe Kollwitz, William
Roberts, John Bratby and John Bellany. Elsewhere the emphasis is on experiment
and play, with Mark Gertler’s eerie still life <i>The Doll</i> (1914) and a
lithograph from Marc Chagall’s <i>Arabian Nights</i> (1948) suite. Hockney
prints depicting water can be seen alongside Howard Hodgkin’s colourful etching
of Hockney’s swimming pool. Bold colour abounds in works by Sybil Andrews,
Sonia Delaunay and Victor Pasmore, to name a few.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Changing
Times</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> is curated by
James Russell, whose previous exhibitions include <i>Ravilious</i> (2015) and <i>Edward
Bawden</i> (2018), both at Dulwich Picture Gallery. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">James says,
“<i>What a pleasure it has been to explore these two sensational collections,
teasing out themes and points of connection. Visitors will see works by dozens
of artists, from household names to the brilliant-but neglected. They will be
able to trace patterns of development and influence through the last hundred
years of British art, or simply revel in an array of artworks that are by turns
colourful, mysterious, thoughtful and fun.”</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The exhibition is accompanied by a major new book - <i>Revisiting
Modern British Art</i>,<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> published in
association with The Ingram Collection and edited by Jo Baring (Director, The
Ingram Collection)</span>. In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking
publication, published in October by Lund Humphries, experts in their field,
including <i>Changing </i>Times curator James Russell, address specific aspects
of British art of the 20<sup>th</sup>-century. Complemented by a range of
striking images, this publication succeeds in showing the strength of the
British artistic tradition while also encouraging the reader to rethink and
explore the existing narrative.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/Home.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Changing Times</i> is at The Higgins Bedford, from 15 Oct 2022 until 16 April 2023 - follow link for info! </a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p>
<p></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-52927483920026445662022-08-01T09:49:00.003-07:002022-08-01T09:49:55.809-07:00Seafaring: the Movie!<iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/734700576?h=9a49918b1d" width="640"></iframe>
<p>Well it's less than a minute long, but I think this is a great introduction to my exhibition <i>Seafaring</i>, which runs at Hastings Contemporary until the autumn. Made by Ali Jassim - who can find on Instagram as @just_jassim - the film follows two young visitors as they tour the exhibition, stopping to look at an array of works by artists such as Cecily Brown, Eric Ravilious and Maggi Hambling.</p><p><a href="https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/seafaring/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Seafaring</i> runs until 25 September: you can find out all about the show here.</a> <br /></p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-64007078981653154932022-07-02T07:36:00.001-07:002022-07-02T07:36:42.203-07:00Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War - Director Margy Kinmonth in Conversation!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IbI3B_uWIB1rFWuFHJFAJPkG945YUYHWBvJXdPPj-E0b1K3UJ70XtI_-9N9QwiqNuesce3ySmPIGGXS0OnUb1pQ9B06Yu002E7FL8zm6uOzsn4zHIvdYtc4zB8UqA2H-vpdz4lSZok6bNl-I_2b6aXXizFe8zPwAl2u0qEHtjFWOy7qMCQhYH-i-lA/s1440/ravilious%20drawn%20to%20war%20margy%20in%20conversation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1440" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IbI3B_uWIB1rFWuFHJFAJPkG945YUYHWBvJXdPPj-E0b1K3UJ70XtI_-9N9QwiqNuesce3ySmPIGGXS0OnUb1pQ9B06Yu002E7FL8zm6uOzsn4zHIvdYtc4zB8UqA2H-vpdz4lSZok6bNl-I_2b6aXXizFe8zPwAl2u0qEHtjFWOy7qMCQhYH-i-lA/w640-h478/ravilious%20drawn%20to%20war%20margy%20in%20conversation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>I'm very much looking forward to discussing <a href="https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War'</a> with the film's director Margy Kinmonth, on Weds 6 July. Since we've talked about the film a lot over the past few years we thought it would be fun to have a fairly informal chat about the making of the film, with some behind-the-scenes pictures and discussion of our favourite Ravilious works. </p><p>We're actually doing a live Q&A at the Watershed in Bristol, but I think that has already sold out. In fact this is happening a lot with Margy's live appearances, so all the more reason for an online event.</p><p>So if you've seen the film and have a question for the director, or you want to find out more before booking your ticket, do join us. The event will be on zoom, with a recording available for a week afterwards. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war-director-margy-kinmonth-in-conversation-tickets-376771151657" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Info and tickets via Eventbrite.</a> Hope to see you there!</p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-26684352803437752322022-06-19T06:54:00.002-07:002022-06-19T06:54:16.883-07:00THOUGHTS ON 'ERIC RAVILIOUS: DRAWN TO WAR'<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStF8By3_98sxECQmKldsT67KPivF_Fa_WiKo07J4R-_fWRGDjxfqEvshTzRxzXGLn2Kwdw_IjUaK_J7mLexmEQEmi9iaWfpBLv8Miyf_5dtwsFhUHLkVX9vMWfmNmwSBiNYY4cY2xCYiZH6yJf6ITGzb3vbvqfUGZfA8_Q8qNTvgdCRTI5EVOiA23LA/s590/ER%20looking%20through%20periscope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStF8By3_98sxECQmKldsT67KPivF_Fa_WiKo07J4R-_fWRGDjxfqEvshTzRxzXGLn2Kwdw_IjUaK_J7mLexmEQEmi9iaWfpBLv8Miyf_5dtwsFhUHLkVX9vMWfmNmwSBiNYY4cY2xCYiZH6yJf6ITGzb3vbvqfUGZfA8_Q8qNTvgdCRTI5EVOiA23LA/s16000/ER%20looking%20through%20periscope.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Ravilious, Submarine Commander Looking Through a Periscope, lithograph, 1940-41 <br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>I'm sure you've had the experience of watching the film version of a novel you love... and wishing you hadn't. It took me years to see <i>The English Patient</i>, so powerful was my own impression of the story, and I've still never seen <i>The Great Gatsby</i> on screen. I don't know if there's a film of <i>Ulysses</i> or <i>To the Lighthouse</i> out there, but if there is I would sell the telly to avoid watching them. On-screen voices and images tend to overwhelm our own more fragile, imagined versions of character and setting, which in some instances are as precious as real memories.</p><p>Having spent much of the last fifteen years building up my own impressions of Eric Ravilious and his world, I was apprehensive about seeing <a href="https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War</i></a>. I knew it would get the story 'right', because Margy Kinmonth is a brilliant, diligent film-maker who involved ER's daughter (and expert fact-checker) Anne Ullmann throughout. But that's not really the point, is it? I've read all of ER's letters many times. They have a voice in my head, as do his wife Tirzah Garwood's letters and autobiography. I also have my own interpretation of the Ravilious story, one I have recounted to many thousands of people over the past decade and a half. Margy's version was bound to be different - how would I feel as it unfolded on the screen?</p><p>I needn't have worried. The first scene plunges us into a world of mingled sadness, beauty and joy. Pace and tone are spot on. Voices and images come and go, held lightly together by <a href="https://edmundjolliffe.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edmund Joliffe</a>'s marvellous score - music I could imagine ER whistling as he worked. Watercolours, wood engravings and lithographs appear before us, hover for a moment or two, then fade away. The voices of Eric (Freddie Fox) and Tirzah (Tamsin Greig) convey the brightness - in all senses - of the characters. There are familiar faces - Anne herself, ER's grand-daughter Ella Ravilious, Grayson Perry, Alan Bennett - and one or two I wasn't expecting. Ai Weiwei's interjections are memorable. Anne Desmet is fantastic on wood engraving. <br /></p><p>We see hands at work, cutting into wood blocks or painting, and these clips take on their own rhythm, flowing through the film. They help build up our picture of Ravilious the artist, and at the same time they add to the poetic structure of the film. It's a documentary, yes, but also a kind of evocation. The film reflects its subject not only in content but also in structure and style. ER's work in all media has this hard-to-define quality of blended rigour and lightness, and in its clarity and effortless flow the film captures this perfectly. <br /></p><p>I can't wait for the London premiere on 27 June! </p><p>A little later, on 13 July, I'll be joining director Margy Kinmonth for a <a href="https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/11368/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Q&A plus screening at the Watershed, Bristol</a>. This is one of numerous Q&As Margy will be doing around the country. Meanwhile the film will be showing at 60 cinemas nationwide, starting 1 July. <a href="https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Info here.</a> Read more about the film <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/19/story-of-doomed-war-artist-eric-ravilious-told-in-new-film" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. </p><p> </p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-58876522526214482952022-05-22T11:02:00.003-07:002022-05-22T11:02:25.609-07:00ERIC RAVILIOUS: DRAWN TO WAR<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OBHPszoi2so" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />The private view of the <a href="https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/about/exhibitions-archive/exhibitions-archive-by-date/2015-ravilious/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2015 Ravilious exhibition</a> at Dulwich Picture Gallery was a bit of a blur, but one moment that stuck in my mind was meeting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margy_Kinmonth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margy Kinmonth</a> for the first time. I had really enjoyed her film about LS Lowry, and when she appeared out of the crowd that evening and said she was making a film about Ravilious I was intrigued.</p><p>Not long after that we met up and had a chat about the project, and since then we've kept in touch. As far as I can tell she has talked to everyone who has anything remotely helpful or interesting to say about Ravilious, and she has overcome innumerable obstacles to get her film made. After hearing so much about the film over so many years I can't quite believe I'm going to see it in a couple of weeks...</p><p>Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War is produced by Foxtrot Films and distributed in UK cinemas from 1 July by Dartmouth Films: <a href="https://www.dartmouthfilms.com/eric-ravilious-drawn-to-war" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">find your local screening here!</a><br /></p><p>
</p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-60027526618322508962022-05-18T06:19:00.000-07:002022-05-18T06:19:07.989-07:00David Remfry: Watercolour - New Book and Exhibition!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPcnMb_jXqOxCt2RealejY7Du61ZejTHoAzNfS-ZFF-Qq2YWngbKslN-IA-OFEMT0XKpwZpjN2yLO7hC4LeoaxRxIAct73BVPWYXCznp0u3Nt7IRn8aJKFWp45YOB-unzNQhLk8WDLG3I9HADSVI7JEIb3K6mDAvCxQR4NYwF-VcVj8q9VfS2XZTmxA/s1000/book%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="827" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPcnMb_jXqOxCt2RealejY7Du61ZejTHoAzNfS-ZFF-Qq2YWngbKslN-IA-OFEMT0XKpwZpjN2yLO7hC4LeoaxRxIAct73BVPWYXCznp0u3Nt7IRn8aJKFWp45YOB-unzNQhLk8WDLG3I9HADSVI7JEIb3K6mDAvCxQR4NYwF-VcVj8q9VfS2XZTmxA/w529-h640/book%20cover.jpg" width="529" /></a></div><br /><p><i>Over his long and successful career <a href="https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/david-remfry-ra" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Remfry MBE RA RWS</a> has
achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually for
the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on people,
exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking images that
are at once beautiful and edgy.</i></p><i>
</i><p><i>This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to the artist's
watercolours. Its author, James Russell, is well known for his writing
on 20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship, humour
and fascination for people and their lives to his study of Remfry's
career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent, looking in depth
at the most significant works and placing Remfry in the context of both
the British watercolour tradition and international contemporary
painting. This is at once a glorious art book and an intimate portrait
of city life.</i></p><i>
</i><p><i>Having spent 20 years living and working at the legendary Chelsea
Hotel in New York, Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic.
New Yorkers - often in party mode - feature in many of his
watercolours, and his recollections of people and places add colour to
the text.</i></p><p>I thoroughly enjoyed working with David on this book and on the accompanying exhibition, which runs until July at the Royal Watercolour Society's beautiful new gallery at Whitcomb St, London W1 (an addition to its Bankside Gallery, NB, not a replacement).</p><p>We're going to be In Conversation at the gallery at 6pm on Friday 20 May. Having spent a lot of time chatting with David over the past year I can recommend buying a ticket - he's great fun!</p><p><a href="https://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/events/115/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Info and tickets available from the Royal Watercolour Society.</a></p><p> <br /></p><p><i> </i></p><p></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-38232779296204034672022-04-27T04:45:00.000-07:002022-04-27T04:45:47.469-07:00SEAFARING EXHIBITION AT HASTINGS CONTEMPORARY!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3Gb6zg3B8A4nh1VIfskuPSZ6kSHCPvP9y1HeAUaEqRWcD59QBgaLF8ZLZzHSoNMsfhySCGtxq5TZ6fTolONPgNK1fP8Vaw3ZcnicaTOigv9ajG5DXi9XeNLA1Batwoiv5A0YelSmao3wYRunQS5T5Vm4uaDgu-cuxFpaTRYtBLBPsi_Lq6MXSbpruQ/s1193/seafaring%20title.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="1193" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3Gb6zg3B8A4nh1VIfskuPSZ6kSHCPvP9y1HeAUaEqRWcD59QBgaLF8ZLZzHSoNMsfhySCGtxq5TZ6fTolONPgNK1fP8Vaw3ZcnicaTOigv9ajG5DXi9XeNLA1Batwoiv5A0YelSmao3wYRunQS5T5Vm4uaDgu-cuxFpaTRYtBLBPsi_Lq6MXSbpruQ/w640-h478/seafaring%20title.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richard Eurich, Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship, 1942, Tate<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>From fishermen to submariners, migrants to merchant seamen, people throughout the ages have shared the experience of being at sea. Seafaring explores the perils and pleasures of life at sea, while at the same time taking visitors on an art historical voyage from the early 19th century to the present.<br /><br />At the heart of the exhibition is<i> Lost at Sea</i>, a show-within-a-show featuring three oil paintings by innovative contemporary artist Cecily Brown from her critically-acclaimed <i>Shipwreck</i> series. These are set alongside works by three Romantic artists who inspired her. Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Géricault and J.M.W Turner were among the first painters to focus attention on the plight of shipwrecked mariners, ordinary people who found themselves at the mercy of the sea. Géricault’s painting <i>The Raft of the Medusa</i> inspired another contemporary artist, Martin Kippenberger, to explore his own mortality in a set of lithographs.<br /><br />The themes of shipwreck and rescue also play out across the wider <i>Seafaring</i> exhibition, as do those of voyage and migration, work and leisure, war and peace. The exhibition includes works based on artists’ observation of the sea and the creatures that inhabit it, and depictions of the people who, for different reasons, travel the sea by ship or boat. In the late 19th century James Tissot studied travellers embarking and disembarking at the Port of London, while Edward Burne-Jones painted a poignant portrait of a young wife longing for the safe return of her husband from sea. Early in the next, Frank Brangwyn portrayed trawlermen battling rough seas. World War Two gave artists such as Ronald Searle and Edward Ardizzone the opportunity to observe maritime life at first hand. Eric Ravilious briefly became the unofficial artist-in-residence aboard a training submarine. More recently Peter de Francia and Maggi Hambling have explored very different aspects of migration by sea, while Chris Orr offers a light-hearted view on life aboard an ocean liner that complements the elegant posters of the interwar years. <br /></p><p><a href="https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/seafaring/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seafaring opens at Hastings Contemporary on Saturday 30 April!</a><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-49066698041845630892022-03-14T01:34:00.002-07:002022-03-14T01:34:45.566-07:00Inspired by the Boy: In Conversation with Angie Lewin<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWHPI0miaPx_tfkuy4UJD7o5N5Hl7slA7yojDiRjGJELVd_Ea0koM7AeX45zboHTVeLlUBT0N_lOT51izVZBWIO6PUNATBaGLLzKt47mcMnR4Fyk-SU5b18h-G8_twv1evmQBWepKFd3yk7MZvHcZcHkpIo8l9Zj5zT20nCk3igPDw66lEBU5iC1xf_g=s4267" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3181" data-original-width="4267" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWHPI0miaPx_tfkuy4UJD7o5N5Hl7slA7yojDiRjGJELVd_Ea0koM7AeX45zboHTVeLlUBT0N_lOT51izVZBWIO6PUNATBaGLLzKt47mcMnR4Fyk-SU5b18h-G8_twv1evmQBWepKFd3yk7MZvHcZcHkpIo8l9Zj5zT20nCk3igPDw66lEBU5iC1xf_g=w640-h477" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Ravilious Coronation Mug features in this linocut by Angie Lewin<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>I'm looking forward to joining artist and designer Angie Lewin on March 23 for an online event exploring her career-long fascination for Eric Ravilious. With Kirsty Rodda of Hampshire Cultural Trust keeping us in order, we will spend an hour looking in-depth at Rav's achievements in wood engraving, watercolour and ceramic design. I always enjoy hearing other people's views on artists I admire, doubly so when the views are coming from someone as talented and insightful as Angie. </p><p>We will have some slides to share so you can see what we're referring to, but this is definitely a conversation rather than a lecture: we're bound to end up venturing down some unexpected avenues!</p><p>If you'd like to join us <a href="https://www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/inspired-boy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">please visit The Arc Winchester website for details and tickets. </a></p><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-57854902992363072722022-02-09T12:31:00.000-08:002022-02-09T12:31:22.407-08:00Eric Ravilious: Art and Life on Zoom!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhojCMKIZjxJp4fxs-_efi1TwbdVQMgJA-xVEIrN1y38-sEPyVu_bUu9RuVK1vnOjVtJA2Axv6DNLRKBgaWdCXAT5Ehyw89H6RHvXhi6ubr3p0lUI9_R_b4X56tn2ShW1omb3y5Z6Hn4VAJSxwG_Ed0rBFrAvUgLxJUSPqmTzg8XUHiuFzIMpFu58t-NQ=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="800" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhojCMKIZjxJp4fxs-_efi1TwbdVQMgJA-xVEIrN1y38-sEPyVu_bUu9RuVK1vnOjVtJA2Axv6DNLRKBgaWdCXAT5Ehyw89H6RHvXhi6ubr3p0lUI9_R_b4X56tn2ShW1omb3y5Z6Hn4VAJSxwG_Ed0rBFrAvUgLxJUSPqmTzg8XUHiuFzIMpFu58t-NQ=w640-h525" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Ravilious, Train Landscape, 1939, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>Please join me for a feature-length online introduction to the life and work of the much-loved artist and designer. Two 45-minute lectures with interval! </p><p data-key="27"><span data-key="28"><span data-offset-key="28:0">Eric Ravilious was only 39 when he died on active service as a war artist in 1942, but he had already achieved incredible things. This colourful two-part lecture explores the celebrated artist and designer's remarkable achievements in wood engraving, lithography, ceramic design and, of course, watercolour.</span></span></p><p data-key="29"><span data-key="30"><span data-offset-key="30:0">I've spent much of the past decade investigating the life and work of this elusive artist. Having put together the 2015 exhibition </span><span data-offset-key="30:1"><em data-slate-leaf="true">Ravilious</em></span><span data-offset-key="30:2"> at Dulwich Picture Gallery, I recently curated </span><span data-offset-key="30:3"><em data-slate-leaf="true">Eric Ravilious: Downland Man</em></span><span data-offset-key="30:4"> for the Wiltshire Museum and, for Hampshire Cultural Trust, </span><span data-offset-key="30:5"><em data-slate-leaf="true">Extraordinary Everyday: The Art and Design of Eric Ravilious</em></span><span data-offset-key="30:6">, which opens on 18 Feb 2022.</span></span></p><p data-key="37" data-slate-fragment="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"><span data-key="38"><span data-offset-key="38:0">Please note: your ticket covers both lectures, which will be given via Zoom on the same evening, with a 15-minute interval. A recording will be available for ticket holders, but tickets must be bought beforehand.</span></span></p><p data-key="37" data-slate-fragment="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"><span data-key="38"><span data-offset-key="38:0"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eric-ravilious-art-life-tickets-254457959607" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tickets are on sale now, via Eventbrite. </a><br /></span></span></p><p> </p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-12081972207530963202021-11-22T00:40:00.000-08:002021-11-22T00:40:29.384-08:00Dates for December!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0Y0b8tE78k/YZtWixM0-uI/AAAAAAAANp0/nC5l88_9xIQB5no5k6D6j2rDs41dkcCQgCNcBGAsYHQ/s703/downland%2Bcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="647" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0Y0b8tE78k/YZtWixM0-uI/AAAAAAAANp0/nC5l88_9xIQB5no5k6D6j2rDs41dkcCQgCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/downland%2Bcover.jpg" /></a></div><br />A couple of lecture dates for December:<p></p><p><b><i>Eric Ravilious: Downland Man</i></b> is on 2nd December, via zoom, hosted by the Wiltshire Museum. <a href="https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?event=online-lecture-eric-ravilious-downland-man-2&event_date=2021-12-02" target="_blank">Tickets and information are available on the museum's website.</a><br /></p><p>The chalk downland of southern England inspired Eric Ravilious (1903-42)
to produce some of his finest watercolours, but his fascination for the
Downs ran deeper. Until January 2022 Wiltshire Museum is hosting <i>Eric Ravilious:
Downland Man</i>, the first exhibition to explore the relationship between
an extraordinary artist and designer, and the landscape he loved. In
this wide-ranging online lecture curator I'll be introducing the
themes of the exhibition and looking in-depth at <i>The Westbury Horse</i> and
similar treasures, some well-known, others rarely seen.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mm-YZY9Di5k/YZtXKVyZDWI/AAAAAAAANqE/dtL2GH_IMOYO5etbCxK0froUTbPB_hwzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s731/phonograph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="731" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mm-YZY9Di5k/YZtXKVyZDWI/AAAAAAAANqE/dtL2GH_IMOYO5etbCxK0froUTbPB_hwzgCNcBGAsYHQ/w630-h640/phonograph.jpg" width="630" /></a></div><b><i>Ravilious, Bawden... and Boucher</i></b> is at 1.30pm on 11 December, and its LIVE, one of several talks at this year's Bloomsbury Jamboree. The event is at the Art Worker's Guild, WC1N 3AT, and <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ravilious-bawden-and-boucher-a-talk-by-james-russell-tickets-210970667947?aff=ebdssbdestsearch" target="_blank">tickets are available from eventbrite</a>. <p></p><p>To celebrate the forthcoming publication of the new Mainstone Press
edition of <i>Boutiques</i>, I will be delving into the life
and career of French artist and illustrator Lucien Boucher. Published in
1925, Boucher's colourful survey of Parisian shops is one of the most remarkable books of this time, and a major influence on Edward Bawden
and Eric Ravilious. As well as exploring Boucher's marvellous illustrations we'll be taking a virtual tour around the Paris he knew and loved, so if you fancy some pre-Christmas <i>flaneurism</i>, do book a ticket!</p><p><br /></p><p> </p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-44635635808179662732021-09-01T06:33:00.000-07:002021-09-01T06:33:53.511-07:00Eric Ravilious: Downland Man - opens 25 Sept!!<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6iWp9KSz2jU/YS94L3HGbYI/AAAAAAAANok/XVlKoF-nSQEF4hdnpKIP1UEWIlHkCqcCgCNcBGAsYHQ/s703/downland%2Bcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="647" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6iWp9KSz2jU/YS94L3HGbYI/AAAAAAAANok/XVlKoF-nSQEF4hdnpKIP1UEWIlHkCqcCgCNcBGAsYHQ/w589-h640/downland%2Bcover.jpg" width="589" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front cover, catalogue of Eric Ravilious: Downland Man exhibition<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </p><p>Almost a decade after Wiltshire Museum director David Dawson suggested the idea, <i><a href="https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=eric-ravilious-downland-man" target="_blank">Eric Ravilious: Downland Man</a></i> is set to open at said venue on 25 September. Having been forced to delay the exhibition by a year because of Covid I'm excited to be hanging the show this month, especially as there are one or two works I haven't seen for a very long time. </p><p>The catalogue has been sent to the printers by designer <a href="http://www.illuminatibooks.co.uk/oed.htm" target="_blank">Lucy Morton of Illuminati Books</a>, who designed the 2015 Dulwich catalogue and has created another gem for this show. It will be available in the museum shop and on their website. My essay explores the artist's relationship with the chalk hills of southern England, putting his passion for the landscape in historical context. The 1920s and 1930s saw a great upsurge of interest in the Downs and their history, encouraged by archaeological discoveries at Stonehenge, Avebury and Maiden Castle, where Mortimer Wheeler's excavations were funded by public subscription. <i> </i></p><p><i>Downland Man</i> is the title of a 1926 book by philosophically-minded countryside writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._J._Massingham" target="_blank">HJ Massingham</a>. It was also a title mooted by publisher Noel Carrington for the Puffin Picture Book of chalk figures and other monuments that Ravilious planned to create; the dummy for this book was won at auction by David Dawson in 2012 (on behalf of the museum). It is from the acquisition of <a href="https://jamesrussellontheweb.blogspot.com/2012/01/eric-ravilious-case-of-white-horse.html" target="_blank">this humble but emotionally-charged object</a> that the exhibition grew.<br /></p><p>Of course Ravilious had a personal relationship with the chalk hills that began with his boyhood move from London to Eastbourne, and was still going strong when he explored coastal defences at Dover the year before he died in 1942. It was, in his interpretation, a human landscape, scarred and furrowed, and lived-in.</p><p><i>Eric Ravilious: Downland Man</i> opens on 25 September 2021 at the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes. <a href="https://www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/?exhibition=eric-ravilious-downland-man" target="_blank">Please book via the website before you go</a>.</p><p>I'm giving a lecture on 5 October for the Friends of the South Downs exploring the themes of the exhibition with a particular focus on the region of the national park, entitled <i>Eric Ravilious and the South Downs</i>. It will be via Zoom and <a href="https://friendsofthesouthdowns.org.uk/public-events/" target="_blank">booking is open now on the Friends' website</a>. <br /></p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-12454354134461008952021-07-16T10:24:00.001-07:002021-07-21T02:51:54.406-07:00Seaside Modern Lecture<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9bGfWzUanbA/YPG-YXmGC4I/AAAAAAAANnU/-dGTOWMLyCEeD6Uf2p3vlaCVhHip2JLYwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1220/ravilious%2BMackerel%2BSky%2Bprivate.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9bGfWzUanbA/YPG-YXmGC4I/AAAAAAAANnU/-dGTOWMLyCEeD6Uf2p3vlaCVhHip2JLYwCNcBGAsYHQ/w504-h640/ravilious%2BMackerel%2BSky%2Bprivate.jpg" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Ravilious, Mackerel Sky, 1938, watercolour<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>LINK FOR TICKETS: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-tickets-163634325673" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-tickets-163634325673 </a><br /></p><p></p><p>Whether you've been to Seaside Modern at Hastings Contemporary, are planning to go or wish you could go but can't, you might enjoy my online lecture on 22 July. It includes many of the artworks in the show along with works that were either unavailable or couldn't be squeezed in, and there are more archive photos and that kind of thing.</p><p>When I was putting the exhibition together I realised that there were two stories to be told, neither of which I'd considered before; two interwoven stories. The first is about people in Britain and their relationship with the beach, which changed from being predominantly a working environment in the early 19th century to being a place to relax. The numbers of people who were able to enjoy a day or more at the beach every year went up and up and up until the 1970s, when we started jetting to the Med instead. Women were liberated from the bathing machine...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2J9c4IzJrhM/YPG_p6wG_9I/AAAAAAAANnk/k961WSBzptMQNiMeOihlrYQnt9QNpYoGwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/bathing%2Bmachines.tif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1287" data-original-width="2048" height="402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2J9c4IzJrhM/YPG_p6wG_9I/AAAAAAAANnk/k961WSBzptMQNiMeOihlrYQnt9QNpYoGwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h402/bathing%2Bmachines.tif" width="640" /></a></div><p>Artists too joined the rush to the coast, not only the more conventional painters of views but some of the most adventurous modern artists of the day. Paul Nash enjoyed two periods of intense creativity by the sea. Ravilious made his name with some stunning work on the coast. Moore and Hepworth were inspired by the erosion of stones. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhgtzuk7aKg/YPHAUh3P0VI/AAAAAAAANns/gQ1r0V_8DhY3m8QR3BWQ8r2IpDxrymJxQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1536/moores%252C%2Bbn%252C%2Bmary%2Bjenkins%2Bnude%2Bhappisburgh%2B31%2Btate.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="1536" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hhgtzuk7aKg/YPHAUh3P0VI/AAAAAAAANns/gQ1r0V_8DhY3m8QR3BWQ8r2IpDxrymJxQCNcBGAsYHQ/w400-h295/moores%252C%2Bbn%252C%2Bmary%2Bjenkins%2Bnude%2Bhappisburgh%2B31%2Btate.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry and Irina Moore, Ben Nicholson, Mary Jenkins, <br />Happisburgh 1931<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I put together this lecture in part because it allows me to explore these themes in different ways, and to show works and archive material that were unavailable or just didn't fit. I hope you'll join me!<p></p><p> Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach - online lecture, 7.30pm, 22 July (recording available for ticket holders), tickets: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-tickets-163634325673" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-tickets-163634325673 </a><br /></p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-80752987932893181492021-07-11T09:17:00.005-07:002021-07-11T09:17:47.818-07:00Seaside Modern: Walkies<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XwwHIr_mrY/YOsXJNExWkI/AAAAAAAANm4/SeQaPfOWukELkvm4Qv5H9Cv2SWQvemyFgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/SEAS%2Bgirls.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1491" data-original-width="2048" height="466" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0XwwHIr_mrY/YOsXJNExWkI/AAAAAAAANm4/SeQaPfOWukELkvm4Qv5H9Cv2SWQvemyFgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h466/SEAS%2Bgirls.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pat Faulkener, Heather Odd, Michele Morize, Barbara Hunt and Wendy Spenceley, Ramsgate, 1959. <br />© SEAS Photography / Wendy Arnhiem.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Life on the beach has been documented by photographers for over a century. Early on, only the wealthiest beach-goers could afford to take pictures (or shoot cine film) themselves, or to have them taken, but by the late 1930s beach photographers had become a feature of seaside life.<br />At Margate, Kent, the Sunbeam Photographic Agency documented seaside life on a huge scale, its photographers taking casual snaps - known as Walkies - of holidaymakers, who then had the opportunity to buy the pictures for a small fee. </p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7f3CICFWzo/YOsSVUbjzjI/AAAAAAAANmk/ecGMz7bJxLcelTem-W6ob4qvDCdzdWJHQCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/SEAS_PFW015.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1451" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7f3CICFWzo/YOsSVUbjzjI/AAAAAAAANmk/ecGMz7bJxLcelTem-W6ob4qvDCdzdWJHQCNcBGAsYHQ/w453-h640/SEAS_PFW015.jpg" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wendy Hollet (nee Marsh) on a Sunbeam donkey<br />SEAS Photography / Vincent Marsh</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Often photographers used props, particularly models of animals, on the backs of which children would perch. The resulting pictures are as strange as anything dreamt up by a Surrealist, and also warm-hearted, as these beach photographs generally are. There is nothing exploitative nor overtly staged about them. They are simply pictures of ordinary people enjoying their day on the beach: leisure that was theirs to enjoy by right. </p><p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-29BHLkMWesg/YOsYlwwMmdI/AAAAAAAANnA/mgUMMD7tWWExW93uppQXMrxePpDlkamEACNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/SEAS_PG015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1000" height="418" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-29BHLkMWesg/YOsYlwwMmdI/AAAAAAAANnA/mgUMMD7tWWExW93uppQXMrxePpDlkamEACNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h418/SEAS_PG015.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Promenade Group, © SEAS Photography / Paul Godfrey.</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p>The beaches of Britain were the setting and inspiration for remarkable developments in modern art, and architectural gems dot the coast, from the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea to the Midland Hotel, Morecambe. Yet in a way what made the 20th century British seaside truly modern were the social and political advances that enabled so many to enjoy a day at the beach.</p><p></p><p><i>This is an edited excerpt from my catalogue essay for </i><a href="https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-2/" target="_blank">Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach</a><i><a href="https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-2/" target="_blank">, which runs until October at Hastings Contemporary</a>. I am grateful to the <a href="https://www.seasphotography.org.uk/" target="_blank">South East Archive of Seaside Photography</a> for lending us a selection of wonderful Walkies! </i><br /></p><br />James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-73689523167587605242021-05-19T23:50:00.000-07:002021-05-19T23:50:19.890-07:00Mackerel Sky: a Ravilious Rediscovered<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XcE7Vl0wKTk/YKYA8Ul7Z1I/AAAAAAAANh8/6q0AQmFTy146lj_lYGqL8kEIwCsXtz6zACNcBGAsYHQ/s1220/ravilious%2BMackerel%2BSky%2Bprivate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XcE7Vl0wKTk/YKYA8Ul7Z1I/AAAAAAAANh8/6q0AQmFTy146lj_lYGqL8kEIwCsXtz6zACNcBGAsYHQ/w504-h640/ravilious%2BMackerel%2BSky%2Bprivate.jpg" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Ravilious, Mackerel Sky, 1938, private collection<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>This radiant watercolour was for many years thought to be missing, when it was in fact hanging quietly in a collector’s home. Like many of his contemporaries Ravilious was intrigued by ‘nautical style’, as John Piper put it, and often turned his gaze to lighthouses, boats and bathing machines. Here he contrasts the familiar shapes of fishing vessels with softly undulating mud. Hawsers and stays snake in and out of the picture, framing a distant wreck. Is this a reminder of mortality, or simply an interesting object that caught his eye? </p><p><i>Mackerel Sky</i> will be on show for the first time since 1939 at Hastings Contemporary, May 27 to Oct 30 2021, as part of my wide-ranging exhibition <a href="https://www.hastingscontemporary.org/exhibition/seaside-modern-art-and-life-on-the-beach-2/" target="_blank"><i>Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach</i></a>. </p><p><br /></p>James Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199461104138671799noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7912052734076308569.post-58356379330747422782021-05-14T01:02:00.002-07:002021-05-17T11:00:38.437-07:00John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f0VFxT84wVI/YJ4rfxlJSJI/AAAAAAAANh0/Of2qRJF2M1IdndEq5TE5VqYDcNYiZkE7QCNcBGAsYHQ/s500/corn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f0VFxT84wVI/YJ4rfxlJSJI/AAAAAAAANh0/Of2qRJF2M1IdndEq5TE5VqYDcNYiZkE7QCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/corn.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Nash, The Cornfield, 1918 (Tate)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Few
paintings express a soldier’s joy in returning safely home as beautifully as <i>The
Cornfield</i>, John Nash’s gilded vision of corn stooks dancing a jig (or so it
seems) on a Buckinghamshire hillside. In the summer of 1918 the war was still
raging, but he had been plucked from his foxhole in the Flanders mud to work as
a war artist alongside his brother Paul. Their days were spent in a former
herb-drying shed, working for the Ministry of War on paintings that would serve
as a memorial to the conflict. While Paul recreated the phantasmagoric
landscapes he had witnessed as an observer in the autumn of 1917, John worked
from his firsthand experience of battle to produce first <i>Over The Top</i>, a
painting that simply and hauntingly portrays the human cost of war, then <i>Oppy
Wood</i>, in which the ghastly trench landscape is shown beneath a sky of blue.
The battle was dreadful, the painting seems to say, but it is over.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Think of
John Nash and it is probably one of these three oil paintings that will spring to
mind. The long and productive career that followed Nash’s brief sojourn as a
war artist has largely been forgotten. Indeed, Andrew Lambirth’s elegant 2019 monograph
is the first major book on the artist ever published, and <i>The Landscape of
Love and Solace</i>, accompanying the new book of the same title by Andy Friend, is the first large-scale exhibition since Nash’s 1967
retrospective at the Royal Academy. Without a strident champion many artists fade
from public view after death, and only the best have a chance of being
resurrected years later. In Nash’s case such a revival has been on the cards
for a while, but the timing of this joyful, sensitive exhibition could not be
better. After a year of gallery deprivation visitors to Towner are in for a
treat.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Although he
lacked formal art school training Nash was from an early age both a gifted
draughtsman and acute observer of nature. His love of plants evolved into a
passion for gardening, and with a large swathe of the British public sharing
this enthusiasm, magazine and book publishers commissioned him to make exquisite
botanical illustrations in a variety of media. His line drawings are sensational
but Nash was also, lest we forget, one of the pioneers of modern wood engraving.
His wicked, wonderful 1927 book <i>Poisonous Plants</i> is a treasure that reveals
both his skill as an engraver and the complex chiaroscuro of his personality. Nash
experienced more than his share of heartbreak and suffered lifelong from
periods of depression. But he retained a delicious sense of humour and a
passion for the countryside, the latter inspiring the oil paintings and
watercolours of hills and farms, woods and ponds that are his true legacy. There
is no overt symbolism or overpowering design in paintings like <i>The Lake,
Little Horkesley Hall</i>. The composition is subtle, the tones carefully
balanced and the brushwork delicate. These paintings need to be savoured. Like
the hidden places Nash sought out, they reveal their secrets slowly. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://www.townereastbourne.org.uk/exhibition/john-nash-the-landscape-of-love-and-solace/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Nash: The Landscape of Love and Solace</a> is at Towner, Eastbourne. I wrote this preview for the May 2021 issue of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theworldofinteriors/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World of Interiors. </a> <br /></span></p>
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