BRITISH DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS OF THE 20TH CENTURY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH COUNCIL
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HOWITZER IN ACTION C 1916/17 William Roberts (1895 – 1980) P1951 © The Artist's Estate
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THREE QUARTER LENGTH OF A YOUNG WOMAN Gwen John (1876 – 1939) P178
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LADLE SLAG, ROUND OAK (1) 1919 Edward Wadsworth (1889 – 1949) P186 © Estate of Edward Wadsworth. All rights reserved, DACS 2015.
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TWO WOMEN IN A BEDROOM c 1912 Walter Richard Sickert (1860 – 1942) P62
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WORKMEN WITH A WEATHER VANE 1945 Keith Vaughan (1912 – 1977) P2727 © The Estate of Keith Vaughan. All rights reserved, DACS 2015.
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COMPOSITION 1914/15 Frederick Etchells (1886 – 1973) P188 © The Estate of Frederick Etchells. All rights reserved. DACS 2023.
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THE STORM TREE 1948 David Jones (1895 – 1974) P56 © The Trustees of the David Jones Estate
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RECLINING NUDE Mark Gertler (1892 – 1939) P58
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THE FARMHOUSE BEDROOM Harold Gilman (1876 – 1912) P2801
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BRIEF RECORD OF A BIRD ON BOUGH 1948 David Jones (1895 – 1974) P2739 © The Trustees of the David Jones Estate
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