A torrent of new work 

Vaughan, Eardley, Cornish and much more...

We’ve been rather busy these last two weeks. New-to-the-gallery are works by the likes of Keith Vaughan, Theodore Major, Norman Cornish, Joan Eardley, Alistair Grant and Hughie O’Donoghue (RA), amongst others. All may be seen on our Latest Work page.

In addition, we’ve also been active acquiring affordable last-century works for our Mid Century Modern Alternatives collection, all of which may be seen HERE.

Keith Vaughan

Keith Vaughan is regarded as one of the most influential of British artists of the last century. Friends with fellow famous artists Graham Sutherland and John Minton, the three were to share studio space for some time, with all three typifying the inventiveness and idiosyncrasy which emerged in post-war Britain. We have long sought to acquire works by Keith for Castlegate, with our desire met with the acquisition of four small wonderful gouache paintings from a private collection.

Joan Eardley

As many of you will be aware, long have we had a passion for the works of the late Joan Eardley. Justifiably regarded as one of the leading lights of figurative painting in Britain of the post-war era, it was Joan’s move to the Scottish fishing village of Catterline which was to open up the world of landscape and seascape painting to her. Arguably however, it’s perhaps her depictions of the Samson children, living in the 1950s/60s deprived Townhead area of Glasgow that she will forever be best known. We were thrilled recently to have acquired just such a work from 1962, even discovering a published photograph of the completed drawing in Joan’s studio of that year.

Theodore Major

Of all the North West English artists, loosely termed as the “Northern School” (think Staffordshire up to North Lancashire), Theodore Major is the one who should be, and increasingly is being, viewed as a nationally important artist of the last century. The career-long versatility of his work is well known, as too was his dislike of the art market. We were thrilled to acquire Men at Night very recently, a wonderful oil painting that transcends the northern roots of it’s subject and draws you in more and more as you look into it, a bit like a great album track. A long-awaited comprehensive book is due out in 2023 by Michael Howard, something we’re very much looking forward to reading.

Mid Century Modern Alternatives

Finally, we’ve continued to be busy tracking down art by perhaps lesser-known artists for our Mid Century Modern Alternatives selection. As mentioned before, we have great fun hunting out such pieces and have added four in the last couple of days, even one that I’m not sure we can claim is “Mid-Century” given it was painted in 1894, but heck, it’s a great little landscape.

All for now,

Steve and Christine
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