‘Spring Morning, The Isle of Sark, Channel Islands’, William Pye, Oil on Board, 1903 (Weymouth Museum)
Spring Flowers, Alice Butterworth, Oil on Board, 1946 (Salford Museum & Art Gallery)
Spring Woodland, Ivon Hitchens, Oil on Canvas, 1910-1945 (Manchester Art Gallery)
‘Spring in St John's Wood, London’, Laura Knight, Oil on Canvas, 1933 (Walker Art Gallery)
Garden Path in Spring, Duncan Grant, Oil on Canvas, 1944 (Tate)
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
‘Spring, the Garden, Villa Sylvia’, John Lavery, Oil on Canvas, 1921 (Ulster Museum)
Springtime in Eskdale, James McIntosh Patrick, Oil on Canvas, 1935 (Walker Art Gallery)
Springtime Group, Doris Taylor, Oil on Canvas, 1931 (Manchester Art Gallery)
Spring Landscape, John Northcote Nash, ‘Pencil, Watercolour, Coloured Crayon and Pen and Black Ink’, 1915 (Private Collection)
Early Spring, Robert Kirkland Jamieson, Oil on Canvas, c. 1930 (Ferens Art Gallery)
Golden Spring, Gunning King, Oil on Canvas, 1933 (Brighton & Hove Museums)
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,
She wore her greenest gown;
She turned to the south wind
And curtsied up and down.
She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour
“Winter is dead.”
A. A. Milne, Daffdowndilly
‘Spring in North London, 2 Houghton Place’, Spencer Gore, Oil on Canvas, 1912 (The Whitworth)
Spring Landscape, Paul Nash, ‘Ink, Watercolour & Gouache on Paper’, 1914 (Jerwood Collection)
‘Spring, Botanic Gardens’, John Duncan Fergusson, Oil on Canvas, 1950 (The Fergusson Gallery)
Spring Day at Boscastle, Gunning King, Oil on Canvas, 1943 (Southbank Centre)
Spring, John Guthrie Spence Smith, Oil on Board, 1928 (McLean Museum & Art Gallery)
Spring, Richard Ernst Eurich, Oil on Canvas, 1950 (Leeds Art Gallery)
Spring, spring! Bytuene Mershe ant Averil, when spray biginneth to spring! When shaws be sheene and swards full fayre, and leaves both large and longe! When the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces, in the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when the birds do sing, hey-ding-a-ding ding, cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-wee, ta-witta-woo! And so on and so on and so on.
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Spring Fever, Len Robinson, Oil on Hardboard, 1946 (Woodhorn Museum)
Spring Landscape, Mary Potter, Oil on Wood Panel, 1933 (Usher Gallery)
Spring Flowers, Geoffrey Birkbeck, Watercolour, 1939 (British Council Collection)
A Street in Spring, Edward Morland Lewis, Oil on Hardboard, early twentieth-century (National Museum Cardiff)
Spring, Mark Gertler, Oil on Canvas, 1931 (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Spring in the Cemetery, Marion Elizabeth Adnams, Oil on Board, 1956 (Nottingham City Museums & Galleries)
There is no time like Spring,
When life’s alive in everything.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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What a perfect way to start the day
Love that Duncan Grant in particular, Victoria!