Autumn Symphony: Colour the Season

“Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul.”

Autumn Chrysanthemums, Theodore Garman, Oil on Canvas, 1948 (New College, University of Oxford)

‘October Bloom, Ravensworth’, John Wallace, Oil on Canvas, 1901 (Laing Art Gallery)

Mornington Crescent, Spencer Gore, Oil on Canvas, c. 1911 (National Museum Cardiff)

‘Autumn Sunshine, Bourne Walk, Hastings, East Sussex’, Edward Leslie Badham, Oil on Canvas, 1914 (Hastings Museum & Art Gallery)

Autumn Landscape, Kaff Gerrard, Oil on Board, c. 1920-1930 (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art)

‘Autumn Sunlight, Sennen Cove, Cornwall’, Laura Knight, Oil on Canvas, 1922 (Birmingham Museums Trust)

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

Autumnal Trees and Farm Buildings, Gunning King, Oil on Wood Panel, 1930 (Brighton & Hove Museums)

Clytie and Autumn Leaves, Mark Gertler, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre)

‘Autumn Composition, Flowers on a Table’, Ivon Hitchens, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (Tate Britain)

Autumn Sunshine, Leonard John Fuller, Oil on Canvas, exhibited 1933 (Newport Museum & Art Gallery)

Autumn in Chelsea, William McDowell, Oil on Canvas (Rozelle House Galleries)

Autumn, John Northcote Nash, Oil on Canvas, 1933 (West Northamptonshire Council)

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

Emily Brontë

‘Still Life, Autumn’, Albert Edward Wade, Oil on Canvas, 1935 (Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre)

‘Manor Gardens, Autumn’, Margaret Dora M. Benecke (1876–1962), Oil on Canvas (Towner)

Autumn Flowers, Malcolm Midwood Milne, Oil on Millboard, 1935-1936 (Manchester Art Gallery)

‘Autumn, Kinnordy’, James McIntosh Patrick, Oil on Canvas, 1936 (Dundee Art Galleries & Museums Collection)

Cotswold Autumn, Adrian Paul Allinson, Oil on Plywood, purchased 1936 (Manchester Art Gallery)

Boothby Bank, Winifred Nicholson, Oil on Canvas, c. 1940 (Manchester Art Gallery)

Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

Humbert Wolfe

A Clearing in the Wood, Eliot Hodgkin, Tempera on Board, 1942-1945 (Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum)

Autumn, John Arthur Malcolm Aldridge, Oil on Canvas, 1946 (Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre)

Autumn Flowers, Dod Procter, Oil on Canvas, 1946 (Royal Academy of Arts)

‘Still Life, Autumn’, Robert MacBryde, Oil on Canvas, c. 1950 (Nottingham City Museums & Galleries)

Autumn, Edward Bawden, Linocut on Paper, 1950 (Fry Art Gallery)

‘Canal at Widcombe, Bath, Autumn’, Maurice Barrett, Oil on Canvas, 1953 (Victoria Art Gallery)

Autumn is my season, dear. It is, after all, the season of the soul.

Letter from Virginia Woolf to her friend Violet Dickinson c. July 1907

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