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Duncan Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. He was a member of the group of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. The JWM Collection contains more than 100 pieces of Grant’s work housed in the Senior Common Room (SCR) Dining Room, ranging in ...
Since the height of Grant’s fame, in the 1930s, Art Fund has helped seven museums and galleries across the UK to collect 13 of his works, through gifts, bequests and acquisition grants. On 1 December 1933, 85 English drawings arrived at the Cooper Gallery, in Barnsley, a gift from the art historian, educationalist and collector Michael Sadler ...
Writing at Charleston in a small Rowney drawing book in 1960 at the age of 75, Duncan Grant clearly recalled his childhood days in India when he was only six years old: ‘I think in the Himalayas being dressed for a party I suppose in black satin knee breeches, lace ruffs and white wig, and sitting dangling a silver-handled cane a strong ...
15 de out. de 2020 · A week before Charleston launches a crowdfunding campaign to raise the final funds needed to reopen, an extraordinary gift of hitherto unknown drawings has been given to the charity as the current owner appeals to the public to ensure that Charleston can reopen its doors. On 2 May 1959, artist Duncan Grant gave to his friend Edward le Bas a ...
18 de set. de 2021 · In 1920, when Grant’s first solo exhibition opened at the Paterson-Carfax Gallery in London, he was a rising star of the British avant-garde. Many works from the original show were tracked down across the country and brought together for the first solo show of Grant’s work since his death in 1978. Over 30 paintings, some of which had not ...
Urban. Duncan Grant is a an artist based in Kent in England and paints abstracts and expressionist pictures inspired by pattern and nature using acrylic on canvas. "The colours live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas." Evdvard Munch.
12 de jul. de 2017 · New York, 'Duncan Grant (1885-1978)', 1st February-15th March 1997, cat. no.8 (according to a copy of the original label attached to the frame) Note: this double-sided drawing is likely a pair of studies for the series of three paintings Grant made of Vanessa Bell in an evening dress made of red paisley fabric around 1916.
