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Harold Williamson, Spray, 1939 © Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum. Photo credit: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.
Exhibition
True to Life | British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s
1 Jul 2017 – 29 Oct 2017
Address
- 75 Belford Road
- Edinburgh
- EH4 3DR
- United Kingdom
Bringing together more than 80 paintings by an almost forgotten generation of artists, this exhibition explores the realist tradition in British art between the two World Wars.
About
It focuses on scrupulously detailed realist painting, part of a world-wide trend at the time.
When abstract art became fashionable after the Second World War, these artists became side-lined and largely forgotten. Many artists of the period opted for a new kind of hard-edged, sharp-focussed realist painting, and found new subjects in modern life. This exhibition, showing only in Edinburgh, includes some 80 paintings, of astonishing technical accomplishment and stunning beauty, by more than fifty artists - including Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Meredith Frampton, Laura Knight, James Cowie and Winifred Knights. Borrowed from public and private collections throughout Britain, this is a unique chance to rediscover a remarkable, but little known period in British Art.
Part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2017.
