Girl Reading at the Window (1911). Gwen John


Girl Reading at the Window (1911). Gwen John (British, 1876–1939). Oil on canvas. MoMA.
The American collector John Quinn was John’s only patron. He eventually owned at least eighteen of her paintings and fifty drawings and he included her painting Girl Reading at the Window in the Armory Show, America’s first ‘modern art’ exhibition, in New York in 1913. 

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Kate Hayllar - Souvenirs of Japan




signed and dated l.r.: Kate Hayllar 1883
watercolour
13 by 18cm., 5 by 7in.


Samuel Sidney - Primroses and Bluebells



signed c.l.: S. Sidley
oil on canvas
76 by 63.5cm., 30 by 25in.


Adolphe Valette, York Street leading to Charles Street, Manchester, 1913




Adolphe Valette, York Street leading to Charles Street, Manchester, 1913
Adolphe Valette was a French painter who is probably best known in the UK for being a tutor to the great L. S. Lowry whilst the latter was studying at the Manchester School of Art.

Vira Boarman Whitehouse

Vira Boarman Whitehouse (September 16, 1875 - April 11, 1957), owner of the Whitehouse Leather Company, suffragette and early proponent of birth control, with English stage and film actress Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly (26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956).
Circa 1915.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

William Gale - The Convalescent




signed with monogram and dated l.l.: 1862; also inscribed on the reverse: No. 1W. Gale Langham Chambers Portland Place
oil on panel

John Linnell - Red Sunset




signed l.r.: J. Linnell, and inscribed on a label, verso: A Red Sun-Set/ Begun aug 8/77/ John Linnell Sn.
oil on canvas