It's Eclectic: Period Treasures

"A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share."

The Breakfast Table, Roger Fry, Oil on Canvas, c. 1918 (Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums)

Train Landscape, Eric Ravilious, Watercolour on Paper (Collage), 1940 (Aberdeen Art Gallery)

Eric Ravilious by friend Phyllis Dodd, c. 1929 (Private Collection)

A Kitchen Interior, Harold Harvey, Oil on Canvas, c. 1918 (Brighton & Hove Museums)

Robin Hood’s Bay in Wartime, Richard Ernst Eurich, Oil on Canvas, 1940 (National Maritime Museum)

'From a Window at 45 Brook Street, London W1’, Cedric Lockwood Morris, Oil on Canvas, 1926 (National Museum Cardiff)

‘Cholmondesbury’ (‘Cheesby’) the Cat, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Oil on Board, 1930s (Trinity College, University of Oxford)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley, Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell, Oil on Canvas, c. 1931 (National Portrait Gallery)

‘Lock Gates, Bath’, John Northcote Nash, Oil on Canvas, 1926 (Victoria Art Gallery)

A Portrait Group, James Cowie, Oil on Canvas, 1933 and c.1940 (National Galleries of Scotland)

Lady in a Blue Cardigan with Hyacinths, Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont, Oil on Canvas (Thoresby Courtyard)

The Red House, Stanley Spencer, Oil on Canvas, 1926 (Ferens Art Gallery)

The Chess Players, John Lavery, Oil on Canvas, 1929 (Tate)

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis, Photographer Unknown, 1951

Land Army Girls Going to Bed, Evelyn Mary Dunbar, Oil on Canvas, 1943 (Imperial War Museum)

Portrait of a Woman, Nina Hamnett, Oil on Canvas, 1917 (Christie’s Images)

The Front Door, Mary Dawson Elwell, Oil on Canvas, 1940 (Cartwright Hall Art Gallery)

‘The Backs of Houses, Harley Street, London’, Algernon Cecil Newton, Oil on Canvas, 1925 (Museum of London)

Treboul, Christopher Wood, Oil on Board, 1930 (Private Collection)

Cineraria, Augustus Edwin John, Oil on Canvas, c. 1948 (National Museum Cardiff)

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

Augustus Edwin John

Farm at Watendlath, Dora Carrington, Oil on Canvas, 1921 (Tate Britain)

The Discussion, Geoffrey Arthur Tibble, Oil on Canvas, 1948 (Government Art Collection)

‘Interior of Danvers House, 109, High Street, Cricklade, Wiltshire, c.1920’, Edward James Buttar, Oil on Canvas (Cricklade Museum)

Portrait of Writer Katherine Mansfield, Anne Estelle Rice, Oil on Canvas, 1918 (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)

Chelsea Embankment, Laura Knight, Oil on Canvas, c. 1935 (McLean Museum & Art Gallery)

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