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Inspiration from Artists Week 45 : Lawren Harris and Graham Sutherland

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Sylvia Evans

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It is a Junk Robert.  They were great fun in H K...but I looked twice as the sails are the same colour as a Brixham trawler...
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I’m informed that he junk painting is painted by Larry Harris not Lawren Harris . I’m posting the introduction to Graham Sutherland early as unfortunately I will be out until later this evening . Graham Sutherland OM 1903-1980, Notable for his abstract paintings and his portraits of public figures. He also worked in utter media including printmaking, tapestry and glass design. Printmaking mostly romantic landscapes dominated his work in the 1920s. Sutherland developed his art in watercolour before moving to oils in 1940. He served as a ware artist in  WW11 painting industrial scenes of the British home front. Such wax his standing in post war Britain that he was  commissioned to design a massive tapestry for the New Coventry Cathedral, Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph. 

Jenny Harris

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Not an artist that I was familiar with, but afraid I couldn’t find any of his work that I liked,  except maybe the portrait of Churchill.

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Russell Edwards

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I've always liked Churchill's portrait and could never understand why he and his wife didn't, he was no 'oil painting' after all! Shocking to think they destroyed it too.
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George Cutter

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I've always liked Churchill's portrait and could never understand why he and his wife didn't, he was no 'oil painting' after all! Shocking to think they destroyed it too.
Russell Edwards on 11/01/2023 18:14:59
I agree with You Russell, I always thought it was an excellent portrait ,and remember thinking at the time that it was vanity which made the Churchills destroy it.

Sylvia Evans

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Wonder why he has no feet in the painting.   No he was no oil painting in real life and as a painting  it is wonderful ,but it certainly is not in the least bit flattering ,it was a present for his  80th birthday from Parliament .  Clementine his wife really hated it and I can understand why .   Who wants the unadulterated naked truth of old age staring at you on a daily basis.?  I can quite understand her destroying it. Though I might have covered it up and buried it in the cellar .  Must take some  time to look at his other paintings.   Thought...poor Graham Sutherland claim to real fame...a disliked painting. 

Tessa Gwynne

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I also thought it an excellent portrait but wondered about the feet , and whether that annoyed them!?

Sylvia Evans

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I just look in a mirror. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I understand Churchill felt it made him look senile - clapped out, a virtual physical monument..... and I think he was quite wrong, and that it was an act of vandalism to destroy the painting.  Maybe we should get someone to recreate it, though it could only be an obvious copy.... I have a biography of Clementine Churchill on my list of to-be-read books; maybe I'll find illumination there.  Maybe he thought the lack of feet was implying something ...?  Feet of clay, that sort of thing?  Who knows what passes through the minds of late octogenarians after a stroke or two, mindful of their legacy and fearing the approach of death.....   There's a happy thought, eh? 

Sylvia Evans

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Thanks Robert.....summing me up...I do have feet.  😪

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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The Sylv tootsies are widely known and admired. 

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I read that Lady Churchill actually stored the painting in her cellar, but that her private secretary got her brother to help smuggle it out and they burnt it in his garden!  When they confessed to Lady Churchill shortly after, she said they had done as she would have wanted. Apparently the painting was recreated -

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