Curated by undergraduate students on the University of St Andrews, School of Art History, AH4196: English Art & Modernism module (2022), this exhibition explores the development of English Art (1900-1960).
It opens with a challenge to tradition from painter Harold Gilman, before exploring gender, the urban vs rural, abstraction vs realism, war, traditions in English art, and the aesthetic development of modernism.
Curators: Izzy Baradaran, Catherine Barrie, Elena Bowden, Kate Capstick-Dale, Esther David-Deleplanque, Trinny Duncan, Bella Flame, Emma Haddow, Katriona Hannah, Mia Hart, Helen Jorgensen, Sarah Knight, Natasha Long, Mhairi McCracken, Ellie McKay, Isabel Simpson, Sophie Turner, and Emma Volini.
Dr Billy Rough, December 2022.
The Mule Track 1918
Paul Nash (1889–1946)
Oil on canvas
H 60.9 x W 91.4 cm
IWM (Imperial War Museums)
Mother and Child 1934
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975)
Cumberland alabaster on marble base
H 23 x W 45.5 x D 18.9 cm
Tate
Self Portrait with Patricia Preece 1937
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 91.2 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Winter Walk, No. 2 1948
Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979)
Oil on canvas
H 42 x W 110 cm
Government Art Collection
Head VI 1949
Francis Bacon (1909–1992)
Oil on canvas
H 93.2 x W 76.5 cm
Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre
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Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942) -
Paul Nash (1889–1946) -
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) -
Stanley Spencer (1891–1959) -
Francis Bacon (1909–1992) -
David Hockney (b.1937) -
Jessica Dismorr (1885–1939) -
Harold Gilman (1876–1919) -
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) -
Ivon Hitchens (1893–1979) - View all 11