Weekend Stories: A Visual Narrative

"The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still."

Morning, Isabel Codrington, Oil on Canvas (Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery)

‘Saturday Morning, Sale’, Charles Holmes, Oil on Canvas (Altrincham Town Hall)

Bore Sul, John Elwyn, Oil on Canvas, 1950 (National Museum Cardiff)

Saturday, Norman Garstin, Oil on Panel (Penlee House Gallery & Museum)

The Sunday Shirt, Dod Procter, Oil on Canvas, c. 1957 (Royal Academy of Arts)

Off to the Pub (The Weekend), Walter Richard Sickert, Oil on Canvas, 1912 (Leeds Art Gallery)

‘Sunday, St Paul's Church, Covent Garden’, Clare Atwood, Oil on Canvas, 1918 (National Trust, Smallhythe Place)

Saturday, John M. Paramor, Oil on Canvas, 1925 (Southwark Heritage Centre)

Sunday in Scotland (Rowallan), James McBey, 1936 (Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums)

‘Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road’, Cecil Osborne, Oil on Canvas, 1929 (Brighton & Hove Museums)

Northern Saturday, Harry Rutherford, Oil on Board, 1948 (Astley Cheetham Art Gallery)

Sunday Afternoon, Stanislawa de Karlowska, Oil on Canvas (Alfred East Art Gallery)

Saturday Afternoon, Stanley Spencer, Oil on Board, c. 1927 (Walker Art Gallery)

What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.

C.S. Lewis

Saturday Night at the Club, Oliver Kilbourn, Oil on Fibreboard, 1940 (Woodhorn Museum)

Country Sunday, Alison Smith, Oil on Canvas (Brighton & Hove Museums)

Sunday Afternoon, LS. Lowry, 1957 (Private Collection)

Sunday Afternoon, William Brooker, Oil on Canvas, 1952 (Royal West of England Academy)

Saturday, Harry Watson, Oil on Canvas, c. 1921 (Grundy Art Gallery)

‘Sunday Afternoon, Blackheath’, Cyril Bruce, Oil on Canvas, Acquired 1955 (Lewisham Heritage)

Sunday Afternoon, John Mackintosh, Oil on Canvas, 1955 (Glasgow Museums Resource Centre)

Saturday Evening, Thérèse Lessore, Oil on Canvas, 1920 (Sheffield Museums)

‘Sunday Evening, St Ives’, Marjorie Mostyn, Oil on Canvas, 1950 (New County Hall)

Sunday, Frank Brangwyn, Oil on Canvas (Newport Museum & Art Gallery)

Sunday Aberdeenshire, Maureen Baird, Oil on Board, 1952 (Edinburgh College of Art)

Saturday Night in the Vale, Henry Tonks, Oil on Canvas, 1928-1929 (Tate)

Sunday Evening, Evan Charlton, Oil on Board, 1954 (The National Library of Wales)

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

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