Head of Young Girl
Arthur Neal
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Spring Morning,
Westminster Abbey
Bob Brown
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NEAC News 2005
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The New English Art Club are very excited to
launch the New English
Trading Company. This is the online shop site
for The New English members to sell their original
art and other art related items directly to the
public.
We are hoping this will be a great succes for
all the New English members.
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At this year’s annual general meeting following the close of another very successful open exhibition, the membership elected five new members:
- Bridget Moore
- William Packer
- Sarah Spencer
The Keeper, Charlotte Halliday was presented with a sketch book of cat drawings by each member of the club to celebrate her 70th Birthday and all her work for the club over the years.
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| The success of the Club’s Annual Exhibition continues with 90 works sold totaling £130,000. The quality of the 544 exhibits demonstrated the strength of figurative painting today both within the membership and outside. 12 prizes were awarded to some outstanding works. The club would like to thank those who donated prizes and the sponsors of the exhibition. The entire exhibition was reproduced here on the web site and work was bought both on the internet and through the gallery. This venture proved a great success and will happen again next year.
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With the president keen to engage as much as possible with the public, this year, in addition to the David Wolfers Memorial Lecture, further talks were given by New English Art Club members at the open exhibition:
The conversation with Charles Williams and Richard Sorrell, led by Bob Brown was well attended and very insightful. The talk was started with Bob reading the Oxford Dictionary definition of Figurative (‘of pictoral or sculptural representation’) and moved on to discuss the difference between objective and subjective figurative painting. Anthony Green, who painted the outstanding figure composition ‘The Wedding,' unfortunately could not make the talk but his work spoke volumes in his absence.
Another well attended event was the Drawing School tour led by Stuart Denyer and Karn Holly on the last Thursday of the exhibition. It was extremely interesting to hear their knowledgeable insights on the works on display and the exhibition as a whole.
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John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925)
One of the New English Art Club’s founder members in 1886, a great traveller, Sargent exhibited in England and America. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1897 and in the 1890’s and 1900’s his international portrait career flourished. From 1910 his work concentrated on landscape painting. For this year’s exhibition the Imperial War Museum has loaned from his war works, 6 watercolours and 2 drawings including a study for ‘Gassed’, regarded as his most important war painting painted in 1919 now also at the Imperial War Museum. An American citizen, Sargent died in London in 1925.
This year’s David Wolfers Memorial Lecture was given by Elain Kilmurray, Director of Research for the Catalogue Raisonne, John Singer Sargent. The 60 people who attended the evening were rewarded with a brilliantly delivered talk by an expert. The Club would like to thank Elaine for her hard work and a great evening.
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