I hope you will be able to join us on
Saturday 28th March, 11.15am (for about an hour & a half)
at The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea.
as we continue our research into the ‘long decade’ of 1950s Britain, from the end of World War II to Pop Art.
This month we’ll focus on the post-war Neo-Romantic painters inspired by artists such as Paul Nash, John Piper and Graham Sutherland like John Craxton, Keith Vaughan and others who – remembering the work of Samuel Palmer and The Ancients a century before – sought an imaginative, visionary, even nostalgic art of landscape.
Greek Fisherman by John Craxton [1946; Pallant House Gallery]; A Path in the Woods by Graham Sutherland [1957; Norfolk Museums Service] Walking Figure by Keith Vaughan [1958; Jerwood Collection]
There’ll be plenty to see & discuss as always!
Tickets are £10 (cash) on the door and include coffee & a biscuit at The Jazz Centre afterwards.
Looking forward to seeing you!
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Notes:
There’s a very good short over-view essay on the Pallant House Gallery website on British Neo-Romanticism by Gerard Hastings here: https://pallant.org.uk/a-different-light-british-neo-romanticism/
Also, both online and at the John Swarbrooke Gallery, Fitzroy Square until 15th March, the exhibition A Paradise Regained: Neo-Romanticism in Britain; see https://privateviews.artlogic.net/2/12ac8f93e419afa9873e58/
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