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| © Lucian Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images. Photo credit: Manchester Art Gallery |
100 artworks from public collections around the UK (but not London) posted over 100 days. Selections made from Art UK website. The choices are personal, with no attempt to be representative, fair or balanced. Begun 17 May, completed 24 August 2020. 83 artists (76 M, 7 F); 38 towns and cities. Most popular artwork (on social media) – Nash, “Wood on the Downs”; 2 Rembrandt, “Carcase of an Ox”; 3= Auerbach, Bacon, Hepworth, Lichtenstein, Linke, Nash, Ravilious, Van Es. My favourite: Joan Mitchell.
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Lucian Freud (1922–2011), "Girl with Beret", 1951 (Manchester Art Gallery)
Monday, 6 July 2020
Jan van Kessel the elder (1626–1679), "A Dragon-fly, two Moths, a Spider and some Beetles, with wild Strawberries", early 1650s (The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford)
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| Photo credit: Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford |
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Albert Irvin (1922–2015), "Mile End", 1980 (Kirklees Museums and Galleries)
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| © estate of Albert Irvin. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Photo credit: Kirklees Museums and Galleries |
Saturday, 4 July 2020
Friday, 3 July 2020
Gillian Ayres (1930–2018), "Belt of Straw and Ivy Leaves", 1983 (Museums Sheffield)
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| © the artist's estate. Photo credit: Museums Sheffield |
Thursday, 2 July 2020
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), "Composition with Double Line and Yellow", 1932 (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh)
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| © image unavailable due to copyright restrictions. Photo credit: National Galleries of Scotland |
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