BRITISH PAINTING 1720-1960
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GREEN TREE FORM 1940 Graham Sutherland (1903 – 1980) P177 © The Artist's Estate
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THORN TREES 1945 Graham Sutherland (1903 – 1980) P74 © The Artist's Estate
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CHILD WALKING WITH CHECK TABLECLOTH 1953 Jack Smith (1928 – 2011) P286 © The Artist
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TABLE STILL LIFE 1951 William Scott (1913 – 1989) P296 © Estate of William Scott
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GIRL WITH ROSES 1947/48 Lucian Freud (1922 – 2011) P79 © Lucian Freud Archive, 2014. All Rights Reserved. Bridgeman Art Library
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ABSTRACT IN BLACK, WHITE AND OCHRE 1958 Victor Pasmore (1908 – 1998) P324 © Estate of Victor Pasmore. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015.
An exhibition of 140 paintings drawn from some 66 museums and private owners in the UK. The exhibition provided a general survey of British painting of the past, though it concentrated chiefly on the great masters: Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. It also attempted to give some idea of the diversity of styles in use in the UK in the later 1950s. It was the largest and most important exhibition of British art which had been sent overseas since the end of the war in 1945.
A catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition, Russian only, no ISBN number.
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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.