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Mary Newcomb
The Industrial Landscape as it Passes By (From the Train) by Mary Newcomb

20th Century

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The Industrial Landscape as it Passes By (From the Train), Pencil Drawing by Mary Newcomb 1922-2008 Additional information: Medium: Pencil 13.3 x 20.6 cm 5 1/4 x 8 1/8 in Signed verso; inscribed with title Visionary painter Mary Newcomb displayed an affinity with English folk art and a grasp of natural science that was anything but naive. Although falling into the tradition of Blake, Turner and Palmer - and latterly of Winifred Nicholson, Mary Potter and Elisabeth Vellacott - in making poetry from the rural picture, she was an untrained and entirely intuitive artist who always claimed she could not draw properly. Late in life she thought she had finally understood the meaning of the word "tone". Mary Newcomb was born in Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1922. In 1943 she graduated from Reading University with a BSc in Natural Sciences, and a Diploma of Education the next year. Between 1944 and 1950 she taught science and mathematics at the high school in Bath. In 1950, Newcomb married and moved to Norfolk. She also spent considerable periods of time living in Suffolk. Newcomb's rural surroundings are the subject of most of her works, although she does not paint in a naturalistic manner. The simplicity of Newcomb's style gives her art an immediacy, which should not be confused with naivety. She became a stalwart of the Norwich Twenty Group, before daring to take a bag of work to London dealer Andras Kalman, the Hungarian refugee who had championed LS Lowry in his first gallery in Manchester. On that occasion the Knightsbridge premises were thronged with people, so Mary went home again. But her second attempt resulted in an instant meeting of minds and the start of a model relationship between artist and dealer. With a dozen solo exhibitions at Crane Kalman from 1970, and further shows across Europe and in America, the Newcomb name was firmly on the map. There were purchases by numerous public galleries including the Tate and in 1996, a splendid monograph by Christopher Andreae, recently republished. Her art lay in the rhythms of nature and the rituals of rural life - in her chickens, guinea fowl and, best of all, sheep, in village fetes and country shows, or in incidents glimpsed as she travelled on the bus, or walked or bicycled. In 1997 the Tate Galley purchased a large work entitled 'People walking amongst small sandhills'. A monograph on Newcomb was published by Lund Humphries in 2018.
  • Creator:
    Mary Newcomb (1922 - 2008, British)
  • Creation Year:
    20th Century
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)Width: 8.13 in (20.66 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Kingsclere, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2718214575432

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