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We also have a selection of cloud studies by Munnings in our own collection, here are four for this weeks #onlineartexchange @artukdotorg
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In Focus: Alfred Munnings, the straight-talking, self-promoting artist who preached that art was 'to fill a man’s soul with admiration and sheer joy' https://t.co/NkEgSq03dZ
Munnings recalls; "A hundred times have I seen this sight, and yet it was more beautiful than ever... once more I saw the classic sight of bright silks against a dark sky... Each start was a fresh picture for me, as they have been, meeting after meeting, year after year."
At age 14 Munnings moved to the city of Norwich. The characters of Norwich inspired Munnings’ early paintings.
Our special exhibition Alfred Munnings: The Art of the Poster focusses on the early influences on a young Munnings.
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The Victorian era saw the publication of fantastical tales. Munnings used fashionable imagery of fairy-tale creatures to inspire his work & make a winning design.
See Munnings' fantastical designs in our new exhibition Alfred Munnings: The Art of the Poster
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Today is #InternationalWomensDay who better to celebrate than Lady Munnings
1) Photogrpah of Lady Munnings in Munnings' Studio, Castle House
2) Violet, My Wife, in the Garden
3) Photogrpah of Lady Munnings on horseback
4) Study of Lady Munnings for Our Mutual Friend the Horse
Throughout Alfred Munnings' memoirs, there are frequent references to his longing to sit by a river and paint. This depiction of the Barle river in Withypool on Exmoor was made in the 1940s. It was an area he frequently returned, to paint the play of light on the water's surface
‘Exercising the Horses’ by Sir Alfred Munnings.
Oil on board. H 22.2 x W 35.6 cm
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The Haymakers. 1902. Oil on canvas. By Sir Alfred Munnings. Private collection.
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Lady Munnings on Horseback, a study. Oil on panel. 28cm x 35cm. Private collection.
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The Squire's Daughter
Alfred James Munnings (1878–1959)
The Atkinson's Collection
If you have seen the wonderful exhibition 'Laura Knight: A Panormaic View' @MK_Gallery you will have seen Laura Knight's pictures of model Phyllis Vipond Crocker.
You can see Munnings' painting & sketch of Phyllis in our current displays - closing this Saturday 6th November
What better way to celebrate Munnings’ birthday #BornOnThisDay 1878 than being at the preview of Laura Knight: A Panoramic View @MK_Gallery. A fabulous show which includes our beautiful lampshade decorated by Laura for Munnings in 1919. Thanks to all in MK for a wonderful day.
The painting September Afternoon shows two young ladies in a canoe gliding down the river Stour between Dedham and Flatford.
A painting which Munnings did for his own enjoyment. The museum owns four large variations of this composition and two dozen studies & sketches for it.
The theme for #OnlineArtExchange is horses, and we've decided to go to the races! 🏇🏇🏇
Arrival at Epsom Downs for Derby Week, Alfred Munnings @BM_AG
Cheltenham Races, British School @TheWilsonChelt
Dieppe Races, Walter Sickert @BM_AG
Back from the Races, Jack Butler Yeats @Tate
'Sailing on the River Bure,' is speckled with silver light and was painted early in Alfred Munnings career. What you realise from his paintings is that he was a thinker and not so much a sensualist so can raise an ordinary moment to one of symbolic grandeur.