After the restrictions of Winter and lockdown, the choice of artwork for this exhibition is driven by the optimism of the arrival of Spring. The slow reduction of restrictions allows us to look forward to enjoying the changes that Spring brings, followed by the arrival of Summer.
The artwork reflects these changes with the soft greens of Spring, early flowers, and wide skies. This is followed by the warm days of Summer, brighter colours, the casual enjoyment of the warmth, meeting in groups and travel for holidays. Further lifting of restriction leads to the playing of sports and the warmer colours of the harvest season.
Our optimism is finally met with the return of crowds, large groups of people at concerts, fairs, and social events.
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The Lawn in Spring
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Magnolia
1983
Springtime in Mill Lane, Swindon, Wiltshire
A. L. Stephens
Oil on canvas
H 59.5 x W 90 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
1965
Pastoral
Cecil Collins (1908–1989)
Oil & tempera on board
H 75 x W 90.5 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
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The Edge of Salisbury Plain
Sidney Richard Nethercot (1878–1951)
Watercolour on paper
H 36.8 x W 48.3 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
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Burderop Park, Wroughton, Wiltshire. Mrs Calley in the Garden
Kate Allen Tryon (1865–1952)
Oil on canvas
H 22.6 x W 35.3 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
1967
Sleeping Venus
George Warner Allen (1916–1988)
Oil & tempera on canvas
H 49.5 x W 59.5 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
1923
Study for 'Bank Holiday in the Park'
William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)
Charcoal on paper with green wash, squared up for transfer in red ink
H 25.4 x W 20.3 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
1987
Nude in a Landscape IV
Michael Cullimore (1936–2021)
Watercolour on paper
H 30.5 x W 53.5 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
1955
Landscape
1895
Man and Scythe
Clausen has used sticks of graphite, a mineral which previously was used in pencils. Graphite creates a soft, metallic grey line of the paper. Clausen has pressed the graphite hard against the paper as he has observed this scene in life. While it is an unfinished sketch, it captures the immediacy of its subject and the artist’s activity. Modern pencils use a small amount of graphite mixed with clay, but graphite sticks can still be found, allowing modern artists to create similarly dramatic lines.
George Clausen (1852–1944)
Graphite on paper
H 30.5 x W 19 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
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Stubble Field near Rhossili Down
Nick Schlee (b.1931)
Oil on board
H 49 x W 59.6 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
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Mevagissey, Cornwall
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Beach House West of Looe
This work was acquired through the Heritage Lottery Funded Creative Wiltshire project and presented to Swindon in 2017.
It is part of Bent’s Landscape Geometry series, in which landscapes are abstracted into bold, repeating geometric patterns. The final works sit somewhere between abstraction and representation.
David Bent
Acrylic on canvas
H 120 x W 120 cm
Museum & Art Swindon
1928
Tennis
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Fairground
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Vicente do Rego Monteiro (1899–1970) -
George Clausen (1852–1944) -
George Warner Allen (1916–1988) -
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William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980) -
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