Saturday, November 28, 2015

English paintings at the Ashmolean Museum, 20th century

Philip Connard
Still Life with Crockery
1920s
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

English paintings of the 20th century appear to have drifted little by little into the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford as individual gifts or bequests. The maker's names are little known now, memorable mainly from the writings of the various English literary moderns in whose circles they moved. Their place in European art history appears to be fairly tenuous, but these cosmopolitan Londoners were in most cases better known even in their lifetimes as art teachers than art makers.

John Downton
Frances Witts in Profile
ca. 1935
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Tristram Paul Hillier
A Rose
ca. 1944
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Thomas Esmond Lowinsky
Miss Avril Turner
1937
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Paul Fordyce Maitland
Beech Trees at Sunsset : Kensignton Gardens
1905
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

James Bolivar Manson
Mrs. Crump's Garden
ca. 1925
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

William Orpen
Chess Players
1902
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Frederick James Porter
Peonies in a Yellow Vase
1921
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Matthew Smith
Vase of Flowers
1920s
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Philip Wilson Steer
Stroud : View over the Plain
1902
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

William Strang
The Fisherman's Home
1905
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Henry Tonks
The Birdcage
1907
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford