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Book Review

Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind

07/2021 | 1420 | 163

Pages: 642-643

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Reviewer:

Wilcox, Timothy (Wilcox, Timothy; Wilcox, Tim)

Subjects

artists:

Hennell, Thomas Barclay

subjects:

British art / War Artists / Watercolourists

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subjects:

Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind By Jessica Kilburn. 352 pp. incl. 220 col. + 57 b. & w. ills. (Pimpernel Press, London, 2021), £60. ISBN 978–1–910258–62–0. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

7. Boys picking carrots in the rain, by Thomas Hennell. 1941. Watercolour on paper, 30.5 by 47 cm. (Private collection).

Exhibition Review

Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing. Jeu de Paume, Paris

11/2018 | 1388 | 160

Pages: 965-968

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Reviewer:

Constantine, Simon (Constantine, Simon)

Subjects

artists:

Lange, Dorothea / White, Clarence Hudson / Dixon, Maynard / Cunningham, Imogen / Van Dyke, Willard Ames / Weston, Edward / Adams, Ansel

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Photographs

museums and institutions:

Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain / Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

places:

Great Britain / London / France / Paris

subjects:

Photography / Photomechanical processes / Portraits / Style / War Artists / World War (1939-1945) / Race / Workers / Working Class / African Americans

Illustrations

Attributed works:

19. Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, by Dorothea Lange. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 33.3 by 25.5 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).

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20. Sacramento, California. College students of Japanese ancestry who have been evacuated from Sacramento to the Assembly Center, by Dorothea Lange. 1942. Digital print, 27.9 by 22.9 cm. (Courtesy U.S. National Archives; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).

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21. White angel breadline, San Francisco, by Dorothea Lange. 1933. Gelatin silver print, 53.3 by 43.8 cm. (Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California; exh. Jeu de Paume, Paris).

Exhibition Review

Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain. The Hepworth Wakefield

10/2018 | 1387 | 160

Pages: 863-865

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Reviewer:

Matheson, Neil (Matheson, Neil)

Subjects

artists:

Miller, Lee / Nash, Paul / Hillier, Tristram Paul / Hepworth, Barbara / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Nicholson, Ben / Man Ray / Banting, John / Chirico, Giorgio de / Miró, Joan / Tanguy, Yves / Penrose, Roland / Ernst, Max / Magritte, René / Dalí, Salvador / Agar, Eileen / Eluard, Paul / Carrington, Dora / Beaton, Cecil

artists:

Melville, John / Mesens, Edouard Léon Théodore

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Photographs / Paintings / Sculpture

museums and institutions:

The Hepworth, Wakefield, Great Britain

places:

Great Britain / Wakefield

subjects:

Surrealism / Photography / Fashion / War Artists / World War (1939-1945) / Modernism / Nudes / Correspondence / Artists' groups and associations / Critical Reception / Influence / Models (people)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

21. Portrait of space, near Siwa, Egypt, by Lee Miller. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 29.2 by 23.3 cm. (© Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex; exh. The Hepworth Wakefield).

Attributed works:

22. A l’heure de l’observatoire – Les amoureux, by Man Ray. 1932–34/1970. Coloured lithograph after oil painting. 68 by 104 cm. (Collection Clo and Marcel Fleiss, Paris; exh. The Hepworth Wakefield).

Exhibition Review

Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Britain, London

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 788-790

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Reviewer:

Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)

Subjects

artists:

Nevinson, C. R. W. / Picasso, Pablo / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Beckmann, Max / Braque, Georges / Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959 / Lehmbruck, Wilhelm / Ernst, Max / Barlach, Ernst / Nash, Paul / Orpen, William / Spencer, Stanley / Mare, André / Grosz, George / Tonks, Henry

artists:

Lenk, Franz / Jouve, Paul / Birkle, Albert / Branson, Clive

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Paintings / Sculpture / Photographs / Videos / Documents / Pastels / Drawings

museums and institutions:

Tate Britain, London, Great Britain

places:

Great Britain / London

subjects:

World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Politics / War Artists / Collections, Public / Archives / Diaries / Correspondence / Soldiers / Nazism / Fascism / Class / Futurism / Abstract art / Figurative art / Neo-classicism / Military art and science / Destruction / Dada / Surrealism / Ruins / War memorials / British painting / French painting / German painting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

22. The floating one, by Ernst Barlach. 1927, cast 1987. Bronze, 213 by 74 by 68 cm. (SchleswigHolsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Attributed works:

23. Grey day, by George Grosz. 1921. Canvas, 115 by 80 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Attributed works:

24. Wire, by Paul Nash. 1918–19. Watercolour, chalk and ink on paper, 48.6 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Article

Laura and Harold Knight in the First World War

09/2015 | 1350 | 157

Pages: 602-609

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Author:

Wilcox, Timothy (Wilcox, Timothy; Wilcox, Tim)

Subjects

artists:

Knight, Harold / Knight, Laura

dates:

1910-1919

subjects:

British painting / World War (1914-1918) / Biographies / War Artists / Exhibitions / Correspondence

Illustrations

Attributed works:

10. Boy and girl, by Laura Knight. 1916-17. Country Life 43 (9th February 1918), p.129

Attributed works:

11. Carn Dhu, by Laura Knight. 1917. Country Life 43 (9th February 1918), p.129

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12. On the cliffs (originally exhibited as My lady of the rocks), by Laura Knight. 1917. The Sphere 72 (9th February 1918), p.45

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13. The green sea, Lamorna (originally exhibited as The green sea), by Laura Knight. 1917 (Private collection; photograph courtesy Sotheby's)

Attributed works:

14. Sergeant W.L. Rayfield VC, by Harold Knight. c.1919-20 (Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa)

Attributed works:

3. Physical training (boxing) at Witley Camp, by Laura Knight. 1918 (Beaverbook Collection of War Art, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa)

Attributed works:

4. 'War pictures by Laura Knight exhibited at the Leicester Galleries', The Graphic 97 (9th February 1918), p.182

Attributed works:

5. General Service waggons coaling, by Laura Knight. 1917-18. The Queen 143 (23rd February 1918), p.217

Attributed works:

6. Driver Joe Shears punching the ball, by Laura Knight. 1917-18. Country Life 43 (23rd February 1918), p.185

Attributed works:

7. Grey weather, by Laura Knight. 1917. The Queen 143 (23rd February 1918), p.217

Attributed works:

8. The cave, by Laura Knight. 1917 (Private collection; photograph courtesy Sotheby's)

Attributed works:

9. The Cornish coast (originally exhibited as Two girls and a dog), by Laura Knight. 1917 (National Museum Wales, Cardiff)

Book Review

Beyond the Battlefield: Women Artists of the Two World Wars, C. Speck

05/2015 | 1346 | 157

Pages: 354

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Reviewer:

Weight, Angela (Weight, Angela)

Subjects

subjects:

Women artists / Australian / Canadian / British / American (United States of America) / New Zealand / Art history

subjects:

World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / War Artists

Illustrations

Attributed works:

60. Church interior, by Grace Cossington Smith (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane)

Article

Stanley Spencer and the Acts of Mercy – a suggested additional source for the Sandham Memorial Chapel

09/2014 | 1338 | 156

Pages: 590-594

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Author:

Langmuir, Erika (Langmuir, Erika; Langmuir, Erika H.)

Subjects

artists:

Spencer, Stanley

buildings:

Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere, Great Britain

dates:

1920-1929 / 1930-1939

subjects:

British painting / Wall paintings / War Artists / World War (1914-1918) / Christian iconography

subjects:

Visual sources

subjects:

Charity

Illustrations

Attributed works:

25. Interior of the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere, by Stanley Spencer. 1927-32. (The National Trust).

Attributed works:

26. The wounded and sick men gathered outside a hospital (the doctor I), by Frederick Cayley Robinson, from the series The Acts of Mercy. 1920. Canvas, 198.7 by 339 cm. (Wellcome Library, London).

Attributed works:

27. Tea in the hospital ward, by Stanley Spencer. 1932. Canvas, 105.5 by 185.5 cm. (Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere, The National Trust).

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28. Bedmaking, by Stanley Spencer. 1932. Canvas, 105.5 by 185.5 cm. (Sandham Memorial Chapel,Burghclere, The National Trust).

Attributed works:

29. Travoys with wounded soldiers arriving at a dressing station at Smol, Macedonia, in September 1916, by Stanley Spencer. 1919. Canvas, 183 by 210.4 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London).

Editorial

At the Imperial War Museum

09/2014 | 1338 | 156

Pages: 571-572

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Subjects

dates:

2010-2019

museums and institutions:

Imperial War Museum, London, Great Britain

subjects:

Editorials / Collections, Public / World War (1914-1918) / Exhibitions / War Artists / British painting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

I. Shop for machining 15-inch shells: Singer Manufacturing Company, Clydebank, Glasgow, 1918, by Anna Airy. 1918. Canvas, 182.8 by 213.3 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London).

Attributed works:

II. Oppy Wood, 1917, evening, by John Nash. 1918. Canvas, 182.8 by 213.3. (Imperial War Museum, London)

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III. The Kensingtons at Laventie, by Eric Henri Kennington. 1915. Oil on glass, 139.7 by 152.4 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London)

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IV. Gassed. 'In Arduis Fedelis', by Gilbert Rogers. 1919. Canvas, 101.9 by 152.4 cm. (Imperial War Museum, London).

Article

Eye-witness accounts and silent dissent: The Burlington Magazine during the First World War

09/2014 | 1338 | 156

Pages: 580-589

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Author:

Pezzini, Barbara (Pezzini, Barbara)

Subjects

art literature:

Burlington Magazine / Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs / Connoisseur (periodical) / Studio (British periodical, London, 1893+)

art literature:

Bell, Clive

artists:

Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.)

dates:

1910-1919

subjects:

World War (1914-1918) / Art periodicals / Propaganda / Art criticism / Exhibitions / War Artists / Reviews

Illustrations

Attributed works:

13. Despair, by William Strang. 1889. Etching, drypoint and sandpaper tone, 25 by 20 cm. (British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

14. Forward the guns!, by Lucy Kemp-Welch. 1917. Canvas, 152 by 306 cm. (Tate, London).

Attributed works:

15. The soldiers of King Albert at the Ready, by Walter Sickert. 1914. Canvas, 211.5 by 166.4 cm. (Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield).

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16. His Imperial Majesty Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, KG, Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Greys, by Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov. 1902. Canvas, 115 by 88 cm. (Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Museum, Edinburgh), as the frontispiece to Studio 66 (1915).

Attributed works:

17. 'Impressions of Brittany in War Time', by Francine Almond and William Douglas Almond, Studio 65 (1915), p.221.

Attributed works:

20. Martin Conway (second from the left) and the committee of the National War Museum, established in March 1917. Photograph. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

23. Three men in long military cloaks (German General Staff), by Roger Fry. 1915. Papier collé. (Present whereabouts unknown).

Attributed works:

24. The old houses at Mechelen after the fire, 1914. Photograph, from H. Kervyn de Lettenhove: 1914-1916. La guerre et les oeuvres d'art en Belgique, Brussels, 1917, no.64.

Western art unattributed:

18. 'French Military Medals', Connoisseur 52 (1918), p.117.

Western art unattributed:

19. 'The Oldest National War Museum in Europe', Connoisseur 49 (1917), p.93.

Western art unattributed:

21. 'Special Notice', The Burlington Magazine 25 (1914), p.325.

Western art unattributed:

22. The Burlington Magazine Consultative Committee, The Burlington Magazine 25 (1914), p.iv.

Article

John Lavery: an intrepid war artist

09/2014 | 1338 | 156

Pages: 573-579

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Author:

Weight, Angela (Weight, Angela)

Subjects

artists:

Lavery, John

dates:

1910-1919

museums and institutions:

Imperial War Museum, London, Great Britain

subjects:

World War (1914-1918) / War Artists / Irish painting / Gifts / Collections, Public / Biographies

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. The first wounded, London Hospital, August 1914, by John Lavery. 1915. Canvas, 175.6 by 200.7 cm. (Dundee Art Galleries and Museum).

Attributed works:

10. Lady Henry's crèche, Woolwich, by John Lavery. 1919. Canvas, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

11. A convoy, North Sea. From an N.S.7, by John Lavery. 1918. Canvas, 172.7 by 1989.1 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

12. The cemetery, Etaples, by John Lavery. 1919. Canvas, 52.4 by 72.2 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

2. From a kite balloon, Roehampton, 1917, by John Lavery. 1917. Canvas 25.5 by 35.5 cm. (Private collection).

Attributed works:

3. The Forth Bridge, 1914, by John Lavery. 1914. Canvas, 50.8 by 101.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

4. The Naval Base, Granton: Granton: twilight: Booms guarding the Forth are seen in the distance, by John Lavery. 1917. Canvas, 52 by 76.2 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

5. Munitions, Newcastle, by John Lavery. 1917. Canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

6. Richborough, the gantries, by John Lavery. 1917. Canvas, 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

7. Scapa Flow from the signal station, by John Lavery. 1917. Canvas, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

8. Southampton Water, 1918, by John Lavery. 1918. Canvas, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

Attributed works:

9. Monitors, Dover Harbour, by John Lavery. 1918. Canvas, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London).

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