Tag: William Orpen
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15 Paintings, British Artists at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, the Edwardian period, with footnotes
British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century lasted during the reign of King Edward VII (1901–10). The Pan-imperial, international, and transatlantic character of British art in that complex period, considered the impact of new technologies—such as electrification, the motor car, recorded sound, and cinema—on painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts. It’s emphasis…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Zonnebeke, with footnotes
Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. In the spring and summer of 1917 Orpen painted the battlefields of the Somme, sometimes at places that had been captured only a short time earlier. Orpen described in a letter the shocking experience of seeing numbers of corpses lying unburied among the flooded shell holes,…
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01 Work, The Art of War, William Orpen’s Tanks, with footnotes
A view looking up to the underside of two tanks. The tanks are cresting a low rise, their treads rearing up towards the grey sky. Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and…
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15 Paintings, British Artists at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Edwardian period, with footnotes
The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long term trends from the 1890s to the First World War. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victorian era.…
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