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Tag Archives: Tate Britain
Rex Whistler Anniversary Commemorated
Next month will mark the 80th anniversary of the death of Rex Whistler on 18 July 1944. He died in France as part of the invasion force following D-Day. The Salisbury Museum has mounted a special exhibition of his work … Continue reading
Rossetti Reviewed
Waugh Society member Milena Borden has kindly prepared the following review of the Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhibit currently running at the Tate Britain museum. This was mentioned in previous postings. The review is entitled “What Is Wrong with Rossetti?”: The … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Art, Photography & Sculpture, PRB, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged Tate Britain, The Rossettis
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Daylight Savings (UK) Roundup: Pre-Raphaelites at the Tate Britain
–Tate Britain has mounted a major exhibit of Pre-Raphaelite painting of and by Elizabeth Siddal. This is described in an article by Iona McLaren in the Daily Telegraph: For modern readers, accustomed to the legend of Siddal as the “meek, unconscious dove” … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Scoop
Tagged Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain, The Catholic Weekly, The Daily Telegraph, The London Magazine, The Namibian, The Times
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Charles Ryder’s Van Gogh
Laura Freeman writing in The Times previews an upcoming exhibit at the Tate Britain. This is Van Gogh in Britain and relates to that artist’s residence in England between 1873-1876. He was not yet an artist at that time (this had … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Newspapers
Tagged Laura Freeman, Tate Britain, The Times, Vincent Van Gogh
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Waugh Quoted in Review of Tate Exhibit
The London Magazine’s review of the Tate Britain exhibit “Painting with Light” opens with a quote from Evelyn Waugh: There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and protagonist, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Brideshead Revisited, Events, London, Photographs
Tagged "Painting with Light", London Magazine, Tate Britain
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