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A great talk tonight about Alfred Munnings & the sunlight, ponies, & inspiration he found in the Ringland Hills. Building the NWL here would be a desecration. Munnings, who fought so hard to conserve Dedham vale from development, would be appalled.

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2021-04-23

Sir Alfred James Munnings (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.

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2021-03-21

"I worked looking into the April sunlight, which lit the back, loins and mane of the mare, surrounding Ned's coat with a flaming, scarlet light."

Sir Alfred Munnings, An Artist's Life, 1950.

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2021-03-17

"...I began to understand the shape and make of the horse, and while I was full of enthusiasm and acquiring fresh knowledge came another event, all to the good. "

Alfred Munnings, An Artist's Life, 1950.

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2021-02-06

"Norwich itself was then a beautiful place, and looked almost the same as it must have done in the days of Crome and Cotman."

Alfred Munnings, An Artist's Life, 1950.

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2021-01-22

Hey, I am Carrill Munnings and I am 3D Artist who loves stylized characters and environments. I'd love to work in a studio environment doing stylized stuff.

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2021-01-13

"Our east-to-west journey, taking us to the far end of Cornwall, was a complete change to an East Anglian like myself. "

Alfred Munnings, An Artist’s Life, 1950

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2021-01-12

I grew to like Shrimp. My memories of him are touched with regret, thinking how much I could have done for him. But I console myself ... that my last gesture ... was to present him with the dun-coloured horse and blue caravan

Alfred Munnings

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2020-12-29

William Roberts tried to sell 'In the Straight,' and another racehorse painting to the Royal Academy in 1949 - though one picture was accepted it was not hung: 'perhaps because only the Munnings' breed of racehorse is allowed to show its paces there,' he quipped.

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2020-12-13

In his autobiography, Munnings recalled how “Each start was a fresh picture for me, as they have been, meeting after meeting, year after year.”

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2020-11-29

Tagg’s Island
1919 oil on canvas

This painting is of models who had posed for Munnings for previous pictures. A conversation piece situated on Tagg’s Island which nestles in the Thames.

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2020-11-23

The Haunted Room Painted at a Farmhouse on Exmoor, 1952, Alfred Munnings. Violet Munnings, who in 1971, was definitely a believer and wrote about ghostly encounters in her notebooks and letters to Munnings. She claimed Castle House, now the museum, was haunted too!

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2020-11-01

The Problem Picture - Munnings explained "During the war I visited Glenthorne, the home of Sir William Halliday. As soon as I saw the four-poster bed I started to paint. Afterwards a female cousin of the late Lord Mildmay consented to pose".

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2020-10-30

My is actually a Horsetober, cause why not.
Been wanting to do these studies of Sir Alfred Munnings' work forever and now I have an entire month for them

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2020-10-02

rippling light
dusk deepens
in reed shadows

Lucy Whitehead


The Stour at Night, Dedham, c1935

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2020-10-02

Sir Alfred James Munnings (1878–1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism.

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2020-07-16

In 1950 the minor artist Munnings reported his work to the police for obscenity based on drawings he found. He was not prosecuted & was awarded a CBE & asked to rejoin the RA. Love Letters (1950), Nude (1935-42) & Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece (1937)

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2020-06-30

In 1950 the minor artist Munnings reported his work to the police for obscenity based on drawings he found. He was not prosecuted & was awarded a CBE & asked to rejoin the RA. Love Letters (1950), Nude (1935-42) & Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece (1937)

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2020-06-23

tour, Day 30. Well, we’ve been on the road for a month, unbelievable, and you’ve all been fabulous. We’re nearly at the end but there’s still treats in store like this “Colonel Lord Barnby on 'Crusader' with the Blankney Hounds” 1929 , Lincoln

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2020-05-15