Work of the Week 30: Tea at Furlongs by Eric Ravilious
1939, watercolour Anyone who has managed to find Furlongs within the fields of the South Downs will understand why it inspired Eric Ravilious so much. The views and interiors at Furlongs – the home of his friend, the designer Peggy Angus – became the...
Work of the Week 29: The Walled Garden by Keith Vaughan
lithograph, 1951 ‘The Walled Garden’ is one of two works by Keith Vaughan featuring in Lithographic Fever, currently at The Fry Art Gallery Too. Both were published in 1951, but while ‘Dancers’ looks forward to Vaughan’s latter assemblies of male nudes – creating a...
Work of the Week 28: Morris Dancing at Thaxted by Walter Hoyle
poster, 1964 Walter Hoyle’s poster celebrating the Morris Dancing at Thaxted perfectly captures the colour and exuberance of the age-old tradition of this English folk dance. In late May or early June, the Thaxted Morris Men perform their version of the Abbots Bromley...
Work of the Week 27: The Flying Dutchman by David Myerscough-Jones
mixed media, 1975 Made in advance of a 1976 BBC television production of Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman, David Myerscough-Jones’s drawing manages not only to be a practical design but to evoke the entire musical world of that haunted and haunting...