Sentences with phrase «ben nicholson»

BB I come from a family of painters, so I'm inspired by artists like Ben Nicholson (a British painter known for his abstract reliefs) and John Singer Sargent (the prolific American portrait artist).

A wake for the Wallis Gallery, Melanie Manchot's exhibition - in - progress and a homecoming for Ben Nicholson in St Ives

One of the most important painters of English Abstraction, Ben Nicholson begin his painterly explorations in the turbulent period between two wars.

Holed up at home, I spent much of the week writing an article about a Ben Nicholson painting of Mousehole in Cornwall from 1947 — a painting in which golden pink sand and a violet sea merge seamlessly into a Picasso - like still life.

Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Edward Burra, Lynn Chadwick, Prunella Clough, John Craxton, Frank Dobson, Paul Feiler, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Peter Kinley, Bernard Meadows, Margaret Mellis, Denis Mitchell, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Graham Sutherland, and Julian Trevelyan British Modern Masters Rosenberg & Co. 19 East 66th Street, New York, NY 10065 April 29 — July 21, 2017 Reception: April 29, 6 - 9 pm

It's a lively painting, and I am enjoying seeing it here in this room along with others that share with Martin an affinity with the tradition of constructivism (some more some less so: Ben Nicholson, Antony Caro, Josef Albers, Laszlo Moholoy - Nagy, Naum Gabo, Kazimir Malevich and Olga Rozanova).

Letter to Ben Nicholson from his father William, discussing Edie Stuart - Wortley, Nancy Nicholson and Robert Graves, and William Nicholson's portrait of Reverend Hughes

Further reading: Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, Oxford 1991 Jeremy Lewison, Ben Nicholson, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1993

Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and the triplets, 9.5 mm black and white film, home movie 1935 Duration: 7 min...

British painting is similarly a highlight of the Kettle's Yard at The Hepworth Wakefield exhibition, with striking solo displays devoted to Ben Nicholson and Alfred Wallis, shown alongside works of other contemporaries including William Scott, Christopher Wood and Winifred Nicholson.

February 18 — March 25, 2006 Ben Nicholson, David Smith, Harvey Quaytman, Jake Berthot, Leonid Lerman, Philip Guston, Terry Winters, Vija Celmins

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Their chief members were Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash and John Piper.

Even later, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore stuck fairly close to the script of subdued near - monochromes in browns and greys (as did Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso's analytic cubism).

They were the most abstract manifestation of a renewed spirituality in her work following the traumas of the death of her son, Paul Skeaping, in 1953 and the definitive separation from Ben Nicholson, with his marriage to Felicitas Vogler in 1957.

, Ben Nicholson: drawings, paintings and reliefs 1911 - 1968, London, 1969, p. 310, no. 90, as» 1957 (Arbia 2)», illustrated.

In 1934 she joined the international group Abstraction - Création along with such artists as Jean (Hans) Arp, Jean Hélion, Alexander Calder, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

Along with her contemporaries Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977), and Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Hepworth was a huge influence on the development of modern art in general and abstract sculpture in particular - especially biomorphic abstraction.

English contemporaries of Sutherland include the sculptors Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), as well as the painters Carel Weight (1908 - 97) and Francis Bacon (1909 - 92).

In 1931 Hepworth met the sculptor Ben Nicholson, who she later married (amicably divorcing Skeaping).

He wrote his first piece on Ben Nicholson, followed by longer articles on the modern art of Cezanne, Picasso, Klee and Braque.

Known as the «pope of modern art», Read became Britain's leading interpreter of abstract paintings and abstract sculpture during the three decades 1930 - 1960, championing a number of modern artists like the painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) and the leaders of modern British sculpture like Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959), Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013).

Curated by artists David Ward and Jonathan Parsons, with Turner Contemporary, the exhibition includes work by Marina Abramović & Ulay, Roger Ackling; Carl Andre, David Batchelor, Paul Cezanne, Ian Davenport, Marcel Duchamp, Barry Flanagan, Ceal Floyer, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rebecca Horn, Runa Islam, Anish Kapoor, Richard Long, Christian Maclay, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Gabriel Orozco, Lucie Rie, Bridget Riley, Lindsay Seers; Mark Wallinger and J.M.W. Turner.

Although Hepworth's studio turns towards the harbour rather than this Atlantic coast, Porthmeor was the site of artists» studios, including those occupied by Ben Nicholson and Terry Frost.

His fellow students included Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, Dora Carrington and others.

Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) British abstract sculptor, noted for his shallow reliefs.

The project will also allow works by some of the most significant British artists in the 20th century, including Anthony Cato, Ben Nicholson, LS Lowry and Henry Moore, who was born just a few miles from the proposed gallery site.

In 1958, he inherited Ben Nicholson's former studio at Porthmeor, St Ives - where he painted for the rest of his life; in 1959 he was awarded the Grand Prize at the second John Moores Liverpool Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery; and in 1960 held his first one - man show in America, at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York, followed by a solo exhibition at the new Waddington Galleries in London.

St Ives (c.1880 - 1993) Noted for its artist colony devoted to plein - airism and, later, abstract art, the St Ives School in Cornwall was home to the sculptors Ben Nicholson, his wife Barbara Hepworth, and the Russian Naum Gabo, as well as painters like Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost and Patrick Heron.

Exhibition catalogue, Ben Nicholson, Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1968, n.p., no. 27, illustrated.

In 1933 he founded the abstract group Unit One, along with fellow artists Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), her husband Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), and the critic Herbert Read, and during the following years he staged further exhibitions, as well as doing commercial work.

Uniting the collection is the observation of everyday life: from Roy Lichtenstein's and Ben Nicholson's engagement with the tradition of still life painting to Dubuffet's interest in domestic objects and the hustle and bustle of daily existence.

Her marriage to Ben Nicholson had broken up, and in February of that year her son Paul was killed, flying in the RAF over Thailand.

At The Painting Space I found out about a very exciting exhibition planned for next year (February to May 2012) at the Courtauld Gallery, London, exploring the relationship between two important early modernist, abstract painters Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson.

Ben Nicholson, English artist whose austere geometric paintings and reliefs were among the most influential abstract works in British art.

Our policy is to buy works by artists early in their careers, so we have a number of extraordinary works from the mid-20th Century by Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson amongst others.

Twenty - five contemporary artists, including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Duncan Grant and John Piper, took part.

Eileen Agar, John Piper and Ben Nicholson are among artists experimenting in Modern British Collage and its Legacy at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (to 29 Sept).

Ben Nicholson was the eldest son of the painters William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde.

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He had been particularly influenced by meetings with Peter Lanyon and Ben Nicholson in the late 1950s.

Selected Modern British artists in the SCVA's collections (click on the links to see relevant Lund Humphries» titles): Francis Bacon; Anthony Caro; Lynn Chadwick; Adrian Heath; Barbara Hepworth; F. E. McWilliam; Bernard Meadows; Margaret Mellis; Henry Moore; Mary Newcomb; Ben Nicholson; Winifred Nicholson; Eduardo Paolozzi; Lucie Rie; Edward Seago; Stanley Spencer; Keith Vaughan; Mary Webb.

Ben Nicholson, 1894 — 1982, English painter; son of Sir William Nicholson.

The British sculptor Barbara Hepworth and the artist Ben Nicholson met while on holiday in Norfolk in 1931, and although both were already married, they gradually fell in love.

-LSB-...] Cornwall she seems to have been somewhat ignored by other British artists, (unanswered letters to Ben Nicholson are included in the -LSB-...]

Upstairs, Richard Wentworth has curated a nostalgic and predictable view of post-war Britain, with works by Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson, as well as July, the Seaside (1943) by LS Lowry.

Artists such as Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth were too busy struggling themselves to bother with a nutty German.

In the mid-1930s, Ben Nicholson and his coterie fell for the severities of Mondrian's grids and rectangles in a big way, eventually spiriting the Dutchman to London for a two - year stay in 1938.

During this time, he met many leading artists of the St Ives School, including Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

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