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| Paul, Janet, Paul, Ewing Paddock, exhibited 2012 |
I've lived in London (or its suburbs) for 58 years. Here are some of the paintings, drawings and etchings that...
...evoke a frisson of recognition in this particular Londoner. Not all of them represent great or even particularly good art, and I've mainly gone for the sort of everyday, humdrum subjects which anyone who's spent any time in this grey, chilly, slushy, inconvenient, uncomfortable, crowded, maddening - and occasionally delightful - city might respond to.
I've no idea who painted that, or what it's called - but I'll supply titles, artists and dates where possible. (If anyone can fill in the gaps, thanks in advance.)
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| Ken Howard RA |
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| Figures Outside Hammersmith Underground Station (1946), Peter Startup |
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| Bayswater (1960), Noel Spencer |
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| London Landscape (c. 1948), James Fitton |
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| Deserted Houses, Pimlico, Charles Ginner (1878-1952) |
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| The Grand Union Canal, Brentford Lock (1954), Osmond Caine |
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| Piccadilly Circus (1912), Charles Ginner |
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| Arrival (King's Cross St Pancras), John Duffin |
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| Liverpool Street Station (1917), Marjorie Sherlock |
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| Life in a Boarding House (c. 1928), Eric Ravilious |
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| Montague Street, January (c. 1956), George E. R. Salter |
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| London Backwater, near St Pancras, James Finlay Watson (1898–1981) |
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| Among the Nerves of the World (1930) Christopher Nevinson |
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| From a Window at 45 Brook Street, London, W1 (1926), Cedric Lockwood Morris |
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| A London Square in Winter (1941), Douglas Percy Bliss |
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| I Live Here (1953-4), Carel Weight |
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| The Quiet River: The Thames at Chiswick (1943-4), Victor Pasmore |
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| Billingsgate Market, London (1962), Ken Howard |
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| Blackfriars, London (1962), Charles James McCall |
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| Living, Clare Curtis |
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| Passers-by, Islington, London, Peter Quinn |
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| Hampstead Backs, London, Charles Mahoney |
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| Flask Walk, Hampstead, At Night (1933), Charles Ginner |
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| The House by the Canal, 1945, Algernon Cecil Newton |
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| London, Winter 1928, Christopher Nevinson |
Thanks so much, Scott, for these wonderful paintings. I am a Londoner born and bred, though haven't lived there for more than 50 years. This takes me back to the London I remember. I wish my printer did colour so I could print them off.
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Truly wonderful paintings many of which I've never seen before.
ReplyDeleteThe influence of Whistler and Derain are particularly evident.
Can I add my thanks too? Really enjoyed this gallery.
ReplyDelete"Bayswater 1960". Is that the corner of Grosvenor Crescent and Chilworth St W2?
I'm glad you enjoyed them. I was worried people would find my selection dull - I'll do a more summery selection later in the year, but London seems to lend itself to sombre hues.
ReplyDeleteYou could very well be right, SDG - it certainly feels terribly familiar.
I'll bow to your expertise, southern man. I've always been a big Whistler fan, but I need to get better acquainted with Derain's work.
In a way, you're lucky not to have a colour printer, Helen - the printers are cheap enough, but the cost of the ink is eye-watering, and you have to buy high-quality paper to make it worthwhile to print the paintings (or maybe it's just that our printer's at least eight years old.)
Very sorry, I meant Gloucester Terrace and Chilworth Street. Grosvenor Crescent SW1 is about something else.
ReplyDeleteNo worries - I knew exactly where you meant, because that's what it looks like.
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