Jane Taylor

British mid century painting of children playing in a winter playground

Norman Basil Town (British, 1915 – 1987) A dance at the fair Gouache on paper 7.7/8 x 13 in. (20 x 33 cm.) Norman Basil Town (1905–1984) was a British artist known for his evocativ...

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...

A really beautiful and large example of British 1930s painting by female artist Phyllis Bray. Bray was a British artist and illustrator known for her inv...

Mona Alizon Edmonds (British, 1911 – 1983) Unfinished monkey business, 1944 Pen and watercolour 11.3/8 x 11.3/8 in. (28.7 x 28.7 cm.)

'Revelry, Winter' by Margaret Green (1925 - 2003) , Oil on canvas and framed. Frame size - 26" x 22" x 1.75" inches

A traditional original oil painting of a Winter Village Landscape with Families & Children by 20th Century British Artist. Art mea...

Cheerful winter landscape with children playing and sledding. Signed lower left. Age-related condition. Dimensions with frame: 48 cm x 58.5 c...

Children playing in the park is a beautiful oil on canvas realized by Vrbova, Miloslava Pof. Zinkovy (1909-1991). Oil on cavas, signed and framed. 60 x 50 cm. Very good condition.