Favourite East End Artists
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Here are some of my favourite East End artists as featured in EAST END VERNACULAR, one of the titles for sale this weekend.
John Allin – Spitalfields Market, 1972
S.R Badmin – Wapping Pier Head, 1935
Pearl Binder – Aldgate, 1932 (Courtesy of Bishopsgate Institute)
Dorothy Bishop – Looking towards the City of London from Morpeth School, 1961
James Boswell – Petticoat Lane (Courtesy of David Buckman)
Roland Collins – Brushfield St, Spitalfields, 1951-60 (Courtesy of Museum of London)
Alfred Daniels – Gramophone Man on Wentworth St
Anthony Eyton , Christ Church Spitalfields, 1980
Doreen Fletcher – Turner’s Rd, 1998
Geoffrey Fletcher – D.Bliss, Alderney Rd 1979 (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives)
Barnett Freedman– Street Scene. 1933-39 (Courtesy of Tate Gallery)
Noel Gibson – Hessel St (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives)
Charles Ginner – Bethnal Green Allotment, 1947 (Courtesy of Manchester City Art Gallery)
Lawrence Gowing – Mare St, 1937
Harry T. Harmer – St Botolph’s Without Aldgate, 1963 (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives)
Elwin Hawthorne – Trinity Green Almshouses, 1935
Rose Henriques – Coronation Celebrations in Challis Court, 1937 (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives)
Nathaniel Kornbluth – Butcher’s Row, Aldgate 1934 (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives)
Dan Jones – Brick Lane, 1977
Leon Kossoff – Christ Church Spitalfields, 1987
James Mackinnon – Twilight at London Fields
Cyril Mann – Christ Church seen over bombsites from Redchurch St, 1946 (Courtesy of Piano Nobile Gallery)
Jock McFadyen – Aldgate East
Ronald Morgan – Salvation Army Band Bow, 1978 (Courtesy of Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives)
Grace Oscroft – Old Houses in Bow, 1934
Peri Parkes – House in the East, 1980-81
Henry Silk – Snow, Rounton Rd, Bow
Harold Steggles – Old Ford Rd c.1932
Walter Steggles – Old Houses, Bethnal Green 1929
Albert Turpin, Columbia Market, Bethnal Green
Take a look at some of the artists featured in East End Vernacular
An amazing array of styles, often consonant with the era of production, all presenting compelling documentary evidence. Now, I’m no Londoner, and you my ask how could I claim that? Simply by feeling, I answer.
Excellent selection, all so good in their own way. Shows how each one’s vision is both individual yet contributes to the whole. Thank you GA.
A wonderful selection. I followed the link to Lawrence Gowing with much interest to discover his Hackney origins as a draper’s son. He was a lecturer at Leeds university when I was there in the mid 70s and I remember him with affection. Superb scholarship and excellent at bringing the subject to life but unfortunately he had a severe stammer and we soon learnt to avoid the front few rows in the lecture theatre to avoid being sprayed with spittle.
If someone would like to buy me a James Mackinnnon or a Harold or Walter Steggles (don’t mind which…) for christmas i would be more than happy.
Wonderful!
Amazing, this Range of fine Art Works! Nice to see them all together!
Love & Peace
ACHIM
Amazing, this fine Range of Art Works! Nice to see them all together!
Love & Peace
ACHIM
i never tire of looking at these paintings. just superb and thank you for all your posts. they brighten both my and my mothers day. your hard work is to be commended
thank you
shelley
Greetings from Boston,
GA, thanks for the review of these East London scenes that you have featured in the past few years. A few of my favorites:
Roland Collins – Brushfield St, Spitalfields, 1951-60 – love the night scene with Christ Church predominating
Harry T. Harmer – St. Botolph’s Without Aldgate – get a kick out of those bird like figures approaching the church
James Mackinnon – Twilight at London Fields – just beautiful
What evocative images. Thank you for these. And I’m with Milo; one of those would be a fine Christmas gift!
Old Fold Road puts me in mind of Lancashire. The mill I guess.
The Noel Gibson picture of Hessel Street is wonderful. As a boy I lived for two years one street over (Umberston St.) and we shopped on Hessel Street. Brings back many memories for sure.
Best wishes from Colorado, USA.
Many Lovely Paintings. Thank You So Very Much.????????