CONTEMPORARY BRITISH PAINTING
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THE IMPRESSARIO 1949 Geoffery Tibble (1909 – 1952) P139 © The Artist's Estate
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FOREST BANKS 1947 Ivon Hitchens (1893 – 1979) P99 © Jonathan Clark Fine Art Representatives fo the Artist's Estate
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GOLDEN SEAM 1952 Alan Davie (1920 – 2014) P301 © The Artist, Courtesy of the Estate of the artist and Gimpel Fils
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ORANGE AND BLUE 1957 William Scott (1913 – 1989) P295 © Estate of William Scott
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INDUSTRIAL CITY 1948 Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887 – 1976) P30 © (c) The Estate of L. S. Lowry. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015.
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LIMESTONE QUARRY, LOOSENING STONE 1942 Graham Sutherland (1903 – 1980) P165
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STILL LIFE WITH MANDOLIN 1943 Robert Macbryde (1913 – 1966) P4 © Estate of Robert MacBryde
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LONDON BOMBED SITE (ST NICHOLAS COLE ABBEY AND BOW CHURCH) 1946 Sir William Coldstream (1906 – 1987) P6 © Courtesy of the artist's estate/ The Bridgeman Art Library
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WINTER LANDSCAPE 1955 Sir Terry Frost (1915 – 2003) P282 © Estate of Terry Frost. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2023.
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AUTUMN TREES WITH A DISTANT HILL 1947/48 Ivon Hitchens (1893 – 1979) P100 © Jonathan Clark Fine Art Representatives fo the Artist's Estate
An exhibition of 48 paintings selected by Colin MacInnes, Michael Middleton and Nan Youngman from the British Council Collection. The idea for this exhibition came as the result of a lecture tour in East Africa in 1955 given by Colin McInnes, who reported back on the need for an 'exhibition of originals for a public, which, while full of enthusiasm had had little or no opportunity for seeing western painting other than in reproduction'. A catalogue, with an introduction by Michael Middleton, was published to accompany the show. No ISBN number.
The exhibition toured in Central and East Africa: Uganda; in February 1957 in Moshi, Tanganyika; Zanzibar; in March 1957 in Blantyre-Limbe, Nyasaland; in June 1957 in Ndola, Rhodesia; and Dar-es-Salaam,Tanzania and from 5 March to 2 April 1959 in Mauritius.
Collection Artist(s)
- John Arthur Malcolm Aldridge
- Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
- Prunella Clough
- Sir William Coldstream
- Robert Colquhoun
- John Craxton
- Alan Davie
- Sir Terry Frost
- Harold Gilman
- Charles Ginner
- Spencer Gore
- Duncan Grant
- Patrick Heron
- Ivon Hitchens
- Laurence Stephen Lowry
- Robert Macbryde
- Kenneth Martin
- Lord Methuen
- Paul Nash
- Ben Nicholson
- Winifred Nicholson
- Victor Pasmore
- John Piper
- William Roberts
- William Scott
- Walter Richard Sickert
- Sir Matthew Smith
- Ruskin Spear
- Sir Stanley Spencer
- Graham Sutherland
- Geoffery Tibble
- John Wells
- Bryan Wynter
Glossary
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Painting
Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.