BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS OF THE 20TH CENTURY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL
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ORPHEUS 1949 Robert Adams (1917 – 1984) P3030 © Robert Adams Estate courtesy Gimpel Fils
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CONSTRUCTION 1949 Robert Adams (1917 – 1984) P3033 © Robert Adams Estate courtesy Gimpel Fils
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STILL LIFE 1947 Ben Nicholson (1894 – 1982) P191 © Angela Verren Taunt 2015. All rights reserved, DACS
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FLOWERS IN THE WINDOW 1934 Vanessa Bell (1879 – 1961) P2725 © 1961 Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta Garnett
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COLLAGE JAN-JULY 1951 1951 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 – 2005) P213 © (c) Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, Licensed by DACS 2015.
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FOLK DANCE 1938 William Roberts (1895 – 1980) P2626 © copyright The Artist's Estate
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MORNING LANDSCAPE, WITH TREES 1924 Philip Wilson Steer (1860 – 1942) P2624
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TURNING FORM 1946 Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 – 1975) P22 © (c) Bowness, Hepworth Estate
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CURTAINED OUTLOOK 1932 David Jones (1895 – 1974) P125 © The Trustees of the David Jones Estate
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THE SOUL VISITING THE MANSIONS OF THE DEAD 1932 Paul Nash (1889 – 1946) P92
An exhibition of drawings and watercolours curated by Geoffrey Grigson in 1951 and drawn from the British Council Collection. This exhibition was a mainstay of the touring exhibition programme and underwent various revivals during its lifespan. Works by Sickert, Gilman, Gwen John and Frances Hodgkins, as well as Moore, Sutherland and a few younger artists were added for a tour of New Zealand, and the exhibition was shown in Israel and Portugal on its return to the UK. The exhibition was reformulated again with the addition of works by artists such as Robert Adams, Eduardo Paolozzi and Alan Reynolds, for a tour of Canada from October 1955 to May 1957, and revived again in the 1960s for showings in the Middle and Far East; and finally in the 1970s for showings in Europe. The exhibition was also seen in Bermuda in 1974/5It toured to museums and galleries in Toulouse, Nourges, Nevers, Firming, Cergy-Pontoise, Le Mans, Yerres, Nice, Agen, Strasbourg. and Evry during 1975/76.
The exhibition would return regularly to London for conservation checks and refurbishment. Some works would be withdrawn for exhibition purposes elsewhere to rejoin the show at a later date.
Various language editions of the catalogue, with Grigson’s introduction and notes on the artists, were published. No ISBN numbers.
Collection Artist(s)
- Robert Adams
- Vanessa Bell
- David Bomberg
- Edward Burra
- Cecil Collins
- Robert Colquhoun
- John Craxton
- Frederick Etchells
- Mark Gertler
- Harold Gilman
- Charles Ginner
- Anthony Gross
- Dame Barbara Hepworth
- Frances Hodgkins
- Augustus John
- Gwen John
- David Jones
- Percy Wyndham Lewis
- Laurence Stephen Lowry
- John Minton
- Henry Moore
- Paul Nash
- Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson
- Ben Nicholson
- Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
- John Piper
- Alan Reynolds
- William Roberts
- Walter Richard Sickert
- Sir Stanley Spencer
- Philip Wilson Steer
- Graham Sutherland
- John Tunnard
- Keith Vaughan
- Edward Wadsworth
- Christopher Wood
- Bryan Wynter