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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Welcome to this weekends bonus artist thread, my choice of artist this weekend is : Edith Lawrence , 1890- 1973, was a talented British Modernist Artist known fir her landscapes and portraits in various mediums. Edith studied at the Slade  School in London and in 1922 exhibited her work with the Seven and Five Society at the walkers Gallery, alongside artists such as Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore  and Christopher Wood.  She was an important alumnus of the Grosvenor School of  Modern Art , where she honed her  skill as a printmaker and textile designer.  She work alongside her lifelong partner Claude Flight, many of the works on the internet are attributed to them both and it’s sometimes difficult to know who it was that actually did a special piece.  I hope you enjoy my selection, I will later in the weekend include some of Claude’s work .  The first three are attributed to them both .

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Lewis Cooper

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The tags applied to art aren't always helpful.  British Modernism for example.  I think of simplified and stylised subject matter, some of which I like.  But the label seems pretty catch-all.  I regret this ladies work doesn't hit the spot for me.  An image search didn't improve matters, but I did find this one... ...I like some of the stylisation employed in the movement. I'll be interested to hear what the landscape  artists think of this ladies work.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I think I'd describe these as "of their time", and while that isn't a criticism I do think they look beautiful but dated - there were several artists in this period who produced these somewhat milky, pastel watercolours and oils.  They're rather cleverly thought out - not random pieces at all; the portrait - hard to be sure of the medium used though I think it's another watercolour - is all about planes, and has produced the stylized look to which this practice often leads.   I like the liquid washes of several of them, principally the first shown, but am not generally an admirer, either of the school insofar as it is one or these examples of it.  However, that's just subjective opinion, really: I'm interested enough to look for further examples of her/their work - I can imagine these paintings, or prints of same, hanging quite comfortably on the walls of an airy property in the home counties, furnished and decorated in a restrained, generally pastel colour-scheme; that's not a criticism either - such homes can be very appealing: I wish I lived in one!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Just saw Lew's post - again, that painting is very typical of a period in the 1920s into the 1930s - not helping that I loathe the game it depicts (sorry, very un-English of me): all jagged edges in this case, but still painted in colours that look as though they were mixed with milk.  There's something rather "forever England" about it; comfortable, tasteful, quite cheerful.  It would be something of a fib to say that they were growing on me.

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Is it just me , or is there something of Picasso in the one of the cricket players ........... Steve

Jenny Harris

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I’m not keen on her painted landscapes.  I prefer her linocuts which she often printed on a thin Japanese paper which can produce a soft focus effect. The image Lewis has posted is one of her linocuts - here are a couple more.

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Interesting - a delicacy of colour; but.... oh I don't know, I just think it looks mannered, and there it is: I'm having trouble moving beyond that: do tell me if I'm just prejudiced against this sort of work, I might well be?  There's something I'm just not getting .... I'd hate to think it's grating against my class prejudices, but I'm not sure that it isn't......  I'm just finding it cosy, smug, bourgeois - which doesn't even mean I hate it, just that I find it too comfortable - is that making any sense AT ALL?  

Denise Cat

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Love, love, love the portrait. Magnificent. 

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