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Book Review
The Bloomsbury Look
10/2022 | 1435 | 164
Pages: 1047
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Reviewer:
Holliday, Matthew (Holliday, Matthew)
Subjects
artists:
Grant, Duncan / Bell, Vanessa
buildings:
Charleston , Firle, Great Britain
subjects:
Bloomsbury Group / Omega Workshops / Interiors
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Bloomsbury Look By Wendy Hitchmough. 184 pp. incl. 160 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020), £30. ISBN 978–0–300–24411–3. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The Dreadnought Hoax, by Lafayette, showing left to right Virginia Stephen (later Woolf), Guy Ridley, Horace De Vere Cole, Adrian Stephen, Anthony Buxton and Duncan Grant. 7th February 1910. Matte bromide print, 17.6 by 22.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Exhibition Review
Post-Impressionist Living: The Omega Workshops. Charleston, East Sussex
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 957-959
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Reviewer:
Holliday, Matthew (Holliday, Matthew)
Subjects
artists:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Bell, Vanessa / Grant, Duncan / Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri / Guevara, Alvaro / Morrell, Ottoline
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Charleston , Firle, Great Britain
subjects:
Bloomsbury Group / Omega Workshops / British art / Furniture / Textiles / Interiors / Portraits / Ceramics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The wrestlers, by Henri Gaudier- Brzeska. 1913–14. Mahogany carcass, with marquetry of pedouk, oak, walnut and ebonised wood, diameter 65 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Charleston, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
20. Opening room of the Omega Workshops. Press photograph in the Daily News and Leader, July 1913. (Charleston Trust, East Sussex).
Attributed works:
21. Study of a woman, by Vanessa Bell. c.1917. Oil on canvas, 29.4 by 23 cm. (Charleston Trust, East Sussex).
Article
From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13
09/2018 | 1386 | 160
Pages: 727-733
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Author:
Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)
Subjects
art literature:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive
artists:
Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa
artists:
Donatello / Bate, Francis
dates:
1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence
subjects:
British painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).
Article
On and off the wall: British murals in the twentieth century
06/2013 | 1323 | 155
Pages: 408-413
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Reviewer:
Beechey, James (Beechey, James)
Subjects
artists:
Mahoney, Charles / Bawden, Edward / Ravilious, Eric / Piper, John / Riley, Bridget, London , Great Britain / Brangwyn, Frank
artists:
Adshead, Mary / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Omega Workshops / Gore, Spencer / Ginner, Charles / Lewis, Wyndham / Kennington, Eric / Rowntree, Kenneth / Philpot, Glyn / Whistler, Rex / Armstrong, John, 1893-1973 / Vaughan, Keith / Nicholson, Ben / Jones, Barbara, 1912-1978
dates:
1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1959 / 1960-1979 / 2010-2019
private galleries:
Fine Art Society, London, Great Britain / Liss Fine Art, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British painting / Wall paintings / Lost works / Exhibitions / Commissions / Public buildings / British / Festival of Britain (London:1951) / Frescoes
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. Day, by Eric Ravilious. 1933. Mural in the tea-room of the Midland Hotel, Morecambe. Destroyed c.1935
Attributed works:
62. Design for a mural in the foyer of the Telecinema at the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London, by John Armstrong (Exh. Fine Art Society, London)
Attributed works:
63. The Englishman's home, by John Piper (Private collection; exh. Fine Art Society, London)
Attributed works:
64. An English holiday - the puncture, by Mary Adshead. One of eleven panels commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook for Calvin Lodge, Newmarket. (Exh. Fine Art Society, London)
Attributed works:
65. Murals by Charles Mahoney in the Lady Chapel at Campion Hall, Oxford
Attributed works:
66. Adam naming the animals, by Barbara Jones, at Yew Lane School, Sheffield
Attributed works:
67. Fig.66 after its demolition in 2009
Exhibition Review
Omega Workshops. London
09/2009 | 1278 | 151
Pages: 634-635
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Reviewer:
Watney, Simon (Watney, Simon)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
dates:
1910-1919
museums and institutions:
Courtauld Gallery, London, Great Britain
places:
London / England
print:
Omega Workshops
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Omega Workshops
subjects:
Decorative arts / British
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913–19 | institution: Courtauld Gallery
Illustrations
Attributed works:
55. White, attributed to Vanessa Bell. Omega Workshops, 1913. Printed linen, 85 by 79.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
56. Design, by Duncan Grant. c.1913–15. Gouache on paper, 43.2 by 65.4 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
57. Tureen, by Roger Fry. Omega Workshops, 1915 or after. Earthenware with blue glaze, 23 by 28.7 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).
Publication Received
Omega Cuts
04/2000 | 1165 | 142
Pages: 244
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Subjects
subjects:
Omega Workshops
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Omega Cuts | author: Greenwood, Jeremy
Short Notice
'Group' (1913): A Sculpture by Roger Fry
12/1988 | 1029 | 130
Pages: 924-927
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Author:
Shone, Richard (Shone, Richard; S., R.; Shone, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.)
dates:
1910-1919
museums and institutions:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
places:
England / London
subjects:
British sculpture
subjects:
Visual sources / Photographs
subjects:
Omega Workshops
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Group: Mother and Child, by Roger Fry. 1913. Painted Wood, 28.6 by 23.2 by 9.8 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario).
Attributed works:
55. Design for an Omega Christmas Card, by Duncan Grant. 1913. Pen and Ink, 25.4 by 20.3 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario).
Attributed works:
56. Design for an Omega Christmas Card, by Duncan Grant. 1913. Pen and Ink, 20.3 by 25.4 cm. (Art Gallery of Ontario).
Attributed works:
57. Omega Christmas Card, by Roger Fry. 1913. Woodcut.
Attributed works:
59. Group by Roger Fry Photographed c.1914 on Mantelpiece of an Omega-Decorated Room, Possibly in the House of Henry Harris, 17 Bedford Square, London.
Western art unattributed:
53. Vanessa Bell and Her Sons Julian and Quentin Bell. Photograph. 1913. (Tate Gallery Archives).
Western art unattributed:
58. Christ in Glory, Lombardy Enamel, Reproduced in The Burlington Magazine, September 1913, p.340.
Book Review
Art beyond the Gallery in Early 20th Century England
11/1985 | 992 | 127
Pages: 816-817
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Reviewer:
Causey, Andrew (Causey, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Lewis, Wyndham
dates:
1900-1929
places:
England
subjects:
Social history
subjects:
Omega Workshops
subjects:
Avant-garde / Patronage / Modern Art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Art beyond the Gallery in Early 20th Century England | author: Cork, Richard
Exhibition Review
The Omega Workshops. London
06/1984 | 975 | 126
Pages: 374-377
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Reviewer:
Shone, Richard (Shone, Richard; S., R.; Shone, Richard)
Subjects
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Crafts Council, London, Great Britain
places:
England / London
private galleries:
Anthony d'Offay, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
subjects:
British painting / Omega Workshops
Illustrations
Attributed works:
51. Nude with Flute, by Duncan Grant. 1914. Panel, 62.2 by 182.9 cm (Exh. Anthony d'Offay, London).
Attributed works:
52. Maud, by Frederick Etchells. Detail from Omega Workshops Fabric. (Victoria and Albert Museum; Exh. Crafts Council Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
53. Study for Deer-Hunting Mural in The Cave of the Golden Calf, by Spencer Frederick Gore. 1912. Oil on Paper, 27.9 by 61 cm (Exh. Anthony d'Offay, London).
Attributed works:
54. Abstract Composition, by Vanessa Bell. 1914. 62.2 by 22.7 cm. (Exh. Anthony d'Offay, London).
Attributed works:
55. Design for Omega Workshops Fabric, by Vanessa Bell. c.1913-15. Water-Colour, 52.1 by 40 cm. (Exh. Anthony d'Offay, London).
Attributed works:
56. Omega Pottery, by Roger Fry. 1914-16. White, Black and Blue Tin Glaze. (Exh. Anthony d'Offay, London).
Attributed works:
57. Lilypond Table, Designed by Duncan Grant for the Omega Workshops. c.1913. Painted Wood, 125.8 by 80 cm. (Exh. Anthony d'Offay, London).
Book Review
Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts
09/1982 | 954 | 124
Pages: 564-565
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Reviewer:
Collins, Judith (Collins, Judith)
Subjects
dates:
1900-1919
places:
England / London
subjects:
British painting / Bloomsbury Group
subjects:
Omega Workshops
subjects:
Decorative arts
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Omega and After: Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts | author: Anscombe, Isabelle , author: Grey, Howard
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