Exhibitions Gallery - Modern British Art 2012

12 June - 1 September

It is fourteen years since we began the annual series of Modern British exhibitions at the gallery, and during that time we have been fortunate enough to handle a remarkable collection of paintings and sculpture. We have also mounted a series of major retrospective exhibitions, including Wadsworth, Vaughan and Kinley, not to mention our re-creation of the pivotal 1955 show of British abstraction and a survey of British constructive art. We have always had a particular interest in sculpture and for this exhibition we will have fine works by Armitage, Chadwick, Frink and Moore. Interest in Peter Kinley continues to be strong and we have included an early impasto painting of 1961, unseen for decades and another of 1966 showing Kinley’s transition to thinner, flatter, more simplified figure painting of the later 1960s and beyond. Following our successful Keith Vaughan exhibition of works on paper we will include gouaches and oils not in that exhibition. There will also be fine works by Prunella Clough, John Craxton, Paul Feiler, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon and Ben Nicholson. We hope you get the chance to see this fine collection either at the gallery or at Masterpiece London.

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Maquette Vertical Screen Form by Robert Adams, 1964 Steel Stamped & dated on base The 1960s was a productive decade for Adams who between working for three important exhibitions at Gimpel Fils executed several important architectural commissions. Each was designed specifically for the site and he would always work closely with the architect. In 1964 he was commissioned to make a 10 feet high open screen by the architect Dennis Lennon, to flank the staircase of a new glass showroom for Sekers Fabrics, in London. Alistair Grieve informs us that the screen, ‘was composed of ranks of vertical bronzed- steel tubes and slats, stacked in horizontal layers, varied by occasional slants, disjunctions and breaks in the spacing.1 The main ground-floor showroom could be viewed through it. Five small maquettes were made which relate to this commission and there is at least one lithograph of a similar composition’. The maquettes including this example are recorded by Grieve (Nos 466-470). P.D. 1. Alistair Grieve, The Sculpture of Robert Adams, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 1992, p.214 - also see p103 for photograph of the Sekers screen 29.5 x 11.7 x 3.8 cms P.O.A.

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Exhibition Inventory

Maquette Vertical Screen Form by Robert Adams VIEW Cumaean Sybil by Michael Ayrton VIEW Paper Hat by Lynn Chadwick VIEW Sitting Couple on Base II by Lynn Chadwick VIEW Barrels in a yard by Prunella Clough VIEW Constellation by Prunella Clough VIEW Taverna by John Craxton VIEW Woman & Bird by John Craxton VIEW Little Orange Rocks by Paul Feiler VIEW Morvah September by Paul Feiler VIEW Maen Dower by Paul Feiler VIEW Man Running III by Elisabeth Frink VIEW Mirage II by Elisabeth Frink VIEW Khaki & Emerald Green by Terry Frost VIEW Landscape with Yellow by William Gear VIEW Hedgerow by Roger Hilton VIEW No 1 Red White + Black by Peter Kinley VIEW Cream and White Construction by Margaret Mellis VIEW Maquette for Draped Reclining Mother & Baby by Henry Moore VIEW Three Quarter Figure Cyclops by Henry Moore VIEW Eastleach Martin by John Piper VIEW Structure, Red, Black & Grey by Alan Reynolds VIEW The Orchard Sunset by Alan Reynolds VIEW Winter Landscape by Alan Reynolds VIEW Untitled by Julian Trevelyan VIEW 0.59 (Untitled) by John Tunnard VIEW Abstract with Candle by John Wells VIEW Red Landscape by Bryan Wynter VIEW