Summer, Winifred Nicholson, Oil on Board, 1928 (Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum)
‘Old Newlyn, Summer’, Edna D. Bridge, Oil on Canvas, 1955 (Newlyn Art Gallery)
Summer Flowers, Roger Fry, Oil on Board, c. 1919 (Private Collection)
‘Bank Holiday, Portobello Beach’, David Macbeth Sutherland, Oil on Canvas, 1932 (The Fleming Collection)
Summer Landscape, William York MacGregor, Oil on Canvas, purchased from the artist’s estate in 1926 (Kirkcaldy Galleries)
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James, An International Episode
Aldeburgh Beach, Claude Rogers, Oil on Canvas, 1937 (Southbank Centre)
The Landing in Summer, Mary Dawson Elwell, Oil on Canvas, 1930 (Grundy Art Gallery)
‘A Summer Day, Largo’, George Leslie Hunter, Oil on Panel, c. 1918-1926 (Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum)
‘July, the Seaside’, Laurence Stephen Lowry, Oil on Canvas, 1943 (Southbank Centre)
‘The Hammock, Charleston’, Duncan Grant, Oil on Canvas, 1921-1922 (Laing Art Gallery)
Summer Sunshine, William Wilson, copper printing plate (verso), 1941 (Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture)
So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’ more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too ‘that is all’.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Bathers: Noon, John Duncan Fergusson, Oil on Canvas, 1937 (University of Stirling)
A Bay on the North Cornish Coast, Arthur Hughes, Oil on Board, 1889-1892 (National Trust Images)
Summer in Cumberland, James Durden, Oil on Canvas, 1925 (Manchester Art Gallery)
Summer Roses, Marcus Henry Holmes, Oil on Board, purchased 1936 (Newport Museum and Art Gallery)
Summer: Stoke-by-Nayland, John Northcote Nash, Watercolour on Paper, 1947 (Touchstones Rochdale)
Vase of Summer Flowers, John Elwyn, Oil on Board, 1943 (Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries)
‘I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. ‘They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’
‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.’
Enid Blyton, Five Go Off in a Caravan
Summer, Miguel Mackinlay (1893-1959), Oil on Canvas, 1933 (Bushey Museum & Art Gallery)
A Summer Evening (Evelyn), Harold Harvey, Oil on Canvas, 1926
Summer Cottage, William Harold Dudley, Oil on Canvas, 1940-1944 (Wolverhampton Art Gallery)
Bathers at Swanage, Eustace Pain Elliott Nash, Oil on Canvas, 1920s (Poole Museum)
On the Beach, Robert Duckworth Greenham, Oil on Canvas, 1934 (The Ingram Collection)
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare, The Sonnets
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Thank you for this joyous collection. I’m fascinated by the last one, On the Beach. Is she a red-head trying to protect herself from the sun, who can’t resist taking off her coat and letting herself luxuriate in the sun? Is she starting to put on her coat and leave after sunning? Many stories there.
Thank you for this joyous collection. I’m fascinated by the last one, On the Beach. Is she a red-head trying to protect herself from the sun, who can’t resist taking off her coat and letting herself luxuriate in the sun? Is she starting to put on her coat and leave after sunning? Many stories there.
What a lovely collection, I could look at these all day. Thanks for sharing.