Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose

British, mid century oil painting by Gerald Rose of London tube station

Grace Larner (British, 1926 – 2022) Worthing Pier Oil on board 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81 cm.) Exhibited: At the United Society of Artists in 1971 Born in Bei...

Derrick Latimer Sayer (British, 1917 – 1992) Caterpillar Signed, inscribed and dated ‘CATERPILLAR’ (lower left), ‘Derrick Sayer 55’ (lower right) Gouache 7.7/8 x 9.1/4 in. (20 x 23.5 cm.) Derrick Latimer Sayer (1912–1992) has been described as a Neo-Romantic and pop artist, with a career that spanned from the spiritualism of postwar English landscapes, to the bright, optical playfulness of 1960s Pop art. Sayer had a distinguished start to his career, having studied at the Chelsea School of Art in the early 1930s under Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore. In 1936 he founded the Mousehole Group Art School in Cornwall with fellow painters George Lamborn and Guy Allen, and for the next few years he exhibited at a number of small local galleries, while also executing commercial advertising work for major companies such as Shell Oil. The 1940s and 50s were a period of widespread travelling, teaching and experimentation for Sayer, as he founded the Army Art Centre in 1945, worked in the South of France in 1949 and displayed works at the Leicester, Redfern and Winton Galleries across the 1950s. In 1966, he took up the helm as the Head of Art at the Chelsea Westminster Adult Education Institute, a position he held until his retirement in 1982. Ten of Derricks works can be found at the Chelsea Westminster Hospital Arts Project, hung alongside a permanent collection that includes Patrick Heron, Howard Hodgkin, and Sian Tucker. Sayer was known for his studies of female nudes, particularly the examination of the nude in...

THOMAS SAUNDERS NASH (1891-1968) The promised land Oil on board 28 x 20 in. (71 x 50.8 cm.) Painter of figure compositions, religious subjects, l...

Jane Taylor (British, fl. 1948 – 1974) Winter games Body colour on paper Signed ‘Jane Taylor’ (lower right) 12.5/8 x 21.1/2 in. (32 x 55 cm.)

Oil on canvas board, signed lower left 'McKnight' Image size: 19 ½ x 14 ½ inches (49.5 x 37 cm) Contemporary frame Looking from the bridge we peer down the Notting Hill Gate Train S...

An original industrial themed oil painting by Derek Higginson, depicting a crowd of figures gathered on a busy station planform. Many of the figures seem eager to bored the evening s...

A mid-century American Realist scene of children playing on the railroad entitled, London Round House. The chaotic scene of children rambunctiously playing is suspected to be set in...

Pastel on paper, signed and dated 19'76' bottom right Image size: 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.75 cm) Mounted and framed Peter Gardner Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921. He stud...