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| Walter Sickert was one of the leading British Impressionists. He founded the Camden Town Group & later belonged to
the London Group, the NEAC & the RA. His palette was that of sombre colours & tones. Later on in his life they lightened considerably. His paintings were often based upon Victorian publications. He was connected to the stage, & most of his finest works are of London music hall acts & their audiences. Sickert often painted in Brighton, Bath, Dieppe & the seedier parts of London. He was implicated in the Jack the Ripper Case in 1888. He lectured & wrote extensively on techniques & was published in numerous books & journals. His paintings are scattered all over the United Kingdom as well as in Rouen, Dieppe, Melbourne & New York. He died on 22nd January 1942. He was an excellent painter & a master of etching. As Virginia Woolf said 'he makes us aware of beauty'. He was a very prolific author, ceaselessly taught & exhibited extensively, formed several art groups, owned or rented thirty-eight studios & premises between 1891 & 1942. I have been researching Sickert for some years. People quote Whistler and other artists, but I felt that Sickert was being overshadowed somewhat. His writings and criticisms were so much wittier, and his bawdy, dry humour always enlightening. Dr. Anna Gruetzner Robins, lecturer in art history at Reading University is currently editing Sickert's Complete Art Criticism. News Exhibitions London "Walter Sickert as Printmaker" is at The Fine Art Society, 148 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W1S 2JT from March 4th until March 27th 2009
"Sickert in Venice" is at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London SE21 from March 4th until May 31st 2009 Recent Exhibitions London An exhibition called "Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group" includes Spencer Gore, Harold Gilman, Robert Bevan, Charles Ginner & the star Walter Sickert. Tate Britain 13th February - 5th May 2008 London
An exhibition of Sickert's "Camden Town Nudes" at the
Courtauld Institute Gallery, Somerset House, Strand,
London from 25th October
2007 to 20th
January 2008.
The April 2006 (No. 1237 Volume CXLVIII) edition included articles about new technical evidence & newly discovered sources of the Music Hall & Theatre of Walter Sickert's drawings & paintings. There is also an excellent review by James Beechey of the Matthew Sturgis book "Walter Sickert. A Life" In this edition there is also an obituary of Lillian Browse written by Wendy Baron. Browse's death is a sad loss to the art world. She was an admirer, and long time friend of Sickert.
'Degas, Sickert and Toulouse-Lautrec: 5 October 2005 - 15 January 2006 at Tate Britain curated by Dr. Anna Gruetzner Robins. Oxford An exciting group of works by W.R. Sickert has been presented to the Ashmolean Museum in the Sands Gallery. There are eight paintings, a pastel & a drawing - all given to the Museum by the Christopher Sands Trust. They include the first version of Brighton Pierrots (1915), Self-Portrait with the bust of Tom Sayers (1913-1915), the pastel version of Noctes Ambrosianae (1906) & a drawing for Tipperary or The Baby Grand (1914). This group is part of the collection formed by Morton & Ethel Sands. The new Gallery also displays important works by Picasso, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, Epstein & Frink. They are specially designed display cases which not only contain sculpture but also incorporate drawers for light sensitive works on paper such as the studies for Sickert's much loved Ennui, drawings by Henry Moore & the wood engravings by Gertrude Hermes & Blair Hughes Stanton.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834 - 1903) Sickert ran into Whistler by chance in 1882. Sickert became his pupil & assistant.
2003 was the centenary of the death of Whistler. Manchester October - December 2004
'drawing is the thing' Whitworth Art Gallery at the
University of Manchester 1st October to 5th December 2004 Kendal July - Oct 2004 An exhibition of Walter Richard Sickert paintings: The Human Canvas is at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria UK until 30th October 2004 There was an exhibition of Walter Sickert's paintings, drawings and prints at:- Fine Arts Societyuntil June 15th 2000 This was an 'amazing' exhibition. Incidentally there was one work by Whistler next to several fine works by his pupil Sickert. This exhibition marks the publication of Walter Sickert: Prints by Ruth Bromberg the first catalogue raisonné of Sickert's work. The exhibition showed some of Sickert's finest paintings, drawings, prints & some amusing letters & telegrams from Sickert. Several were to his long time friend Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies whom he met in 1932. His first exhibited works were shown at the Fine Art Society in 1881. London's Tate Britain mounted an exhibition called "The Art of Bloomsbury" from November 4th 1999 to January 30th 2000. This exhibition focused on the paintings of the Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry. It also included works by Walter Sickert, Dora Carrington, William Roberts, Henry Lamb, Picasso, Derain and Matisse. |
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| My list of recommended books by and about Sickert may be found in the Well Furlong Book Shop. If you so wish, you may go on to buy many of the volumes in our Book Shop directly from either Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk by clicking on the appropriate flag next to a title. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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