Hay carts and the last working horses in central London, houses of the rich in St John’s Wood, country views from East Devon during summer visits.
Bevan
Member of the Fitzroy Street and Camden Town Groups, he recorded the final years of the working horse in London, and landscapes in southern England.
Paintings from the late careers of Félix Vallotton, Robert Bevan, Nikolai Astrup, George Bellows, Théo van Rysselberghe, Pierre Bonnard and Lovis Corinth.
Ploughing, sowing, weeding, calving and lambing, the hay harvest, sheep shearing, the grain harvest, fruit harvests, then back again to the start.
Mow the grass, scatter it about, gather it in windrows, cock it, scatter then windrow it again, until it’s dry and ready to stack. How to make hay the hard way.
An introduction to a new series tracing the history of the countryside in fine paintings. Explains why some English country lanes have so many twisting bends.
Goya’s crockery salesman, Lhermitte’s Les Halles in Paris, a trio of specialist markets, Rosa Bonheur’s horse fair in Paris, and the last hay market in London.
From changes in ploughs to the enclosure and farming of what had been open land, landscape paintings can tell us a lot about the history of the land.
In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.
Main themes of the group include views of everyday London, its music halls, mundane domestic interiors, and inevitable portraits.
The Eclectic Light Company 