Richard Morrisさんのイラストまとめ

In 1908, Festus Kelly travelled to Mandalay in Burma, and spent a year being thrilled by its colour and lifestyle. Reproductions of Kelly's paintings made in the country became at one time amongst the most popular prints in Britain.

'Rocks, St Mary's, Scilly Isles,' (1950) show Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's superb, crisp, draughtsmanship. She was wrongly regarded as a follower of Ben Nicholson, chiefly because her work did follow the same evolution as some of her more assertive (male) contemporaries.

The two strands of Christopher Wood’s life, being at the centre of avant-garde artistic Paris and the recluse who longed for simplicity and peace of the rural life, came together when he visited Tréboul in Brittany in 1929 and to where he returned the following (final) summer.

In John Craxton's 'Landscape with Poet and Birdcatcher,' (1942) Lucian Freud is seen holding a bird with a broken wing. It's possibly a reference to Paul Gallico's novella The Snow Goose where a bird rescuing lighthouse keeper dies leading British troops to safety from Dunkirk.

'The Diver.' (c1914) Sidney Sime is a legendary name in the world of illustration. He grew from poverty and obscurity to become ‘the greatest living artist’, in the view of his patron Randolph Hearst. He rarely showed his work but when he did it once led to a queue 'a mile long.'

It was during John Duncan Fergusson's early period in Paris (around 1908) that he became friendly with the Scottish businessman Harry McColl, and his brother Bill. They became lifelong friends and Fergusson painted this portrait of Harry's wife, Grace, in 1930.

Christopher Fiddes is an energetic, versatile and prolific artist, making pictures with a modern, rich, poetic vision. Running In,' (2019) provides us with summer memories of long shadows on village greens, warm beer and doubtful decisions. This picture is for sale.

John Nash wrote about the constancy in the natural and historic landscape, with its cycles of life and death, and rhythmic change. This is his 'Lane in Wormingford,' the Essex village he moved to 1945; his house he left to the writer Ronnie Blyth. An instance of rhythmic change.

'Ruined Fence.' A friend of Joan Eardley, Hilda Goldwag's subjects included the nearby Forth and Clyde Canal, the tenements and the warehouses of Cowcaddens in Glasgow. In the 1950s she became known to the London art market for her exuberant landscapes and figurative work.

This painting by Kurt Schwitters from around 1947 depicts a cottage outside Grasmere in the Lake District where he is said to have slept rough for a short time. The hill in the background is known as ‘The Lion and The Lamb.'