Rediscovering Art by Women

Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)

Man at Work A Century of Technical and Social Progress

, 1961

Catalogue essay coming soon…

H428.6cm

x W305.4cm

Mural for the International Labour Exhibition, Central Office of Information, Turin, Italy, 1961. Two panels, oil on board.

Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)

Barbara Jones first attended art school in Croydon (1931–33) before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (1933–36), where she met painter Cliff Barry whom she married in 1941. A prolific and varied artist, during WWII she worked with the Pilgrim Trust on the Recording Britain series, making one of the largest contributions of the 63 artists taking part. She wrote and illustrated books on design history, many of which are today considered seminal, including The Unsophisticated Arts, 1951 and Design for Death, 1967. In 1951, she organised the ‘Black Eyes and Lemonade: Curating Popular Art’ exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery for the Festival of Britain. A fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists from the same year, she was made vice president in 1969. She was also a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a member of the Society of Authors. A retrospective exhibition of the contents of her studio was held at Katharine House Gallery, Marlborough, in 1999.

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Thank you to @nationalportraitgallery, @benjamin.carteret @toujours.bizarre

Head to the RAW blog page now!

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Swipe right to see who inspired Marion Adnams’ “Emperor Moths/Thunder On the Left” (1963) now in the RAW COLLECTION!

In her autobiography, Adnams wrote “In September, I went to Venice. It was wonderful being in Venice, but there was nothing to draw. Or rather, it had all been done already. Venice herself was the finished article and, as such, I could do little with her” but upon seeing René Magritte’s The Voice of Space (La Voix des airs, 1931) held in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Adnams found herself inspired again: “In October, I painted the Emperor. Tho of these great moths cling to balls of blue glaze, floating in the sky above a landscape which was dark blue and purple with the threat of approaching storm”

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⭐️ No magazines better documented and captured 20c high society than those owned by Condé Nast - which, over the decades, employed a number (albeit proportionately small) of women photographers.

⭐️ By 1920, Condé Nast was the leading international magazine publisher in the world, having launched British Vogue in 1916 and the French version four years later.

⭐️ Condé Nast's main readership was the world's elite in New York, Paris, and London who haunted the jazz clubs, the theaters, and the most prestigious parties and events.

⭐️ As well as documenting people, Condé Nast's magazines also reflected the most widespread trends in the arts and architecture throughout the century.

Swipe 👈🏽 for a few stand-out images:

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2) Ruth Harriet Louise - Greta Garbo, 1931
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One week left to see « Body Poetics » at @giantartgallery in Bournemouth, a group exhibition pairing nine feminist artists at the advent of feminist theory in the 1970s & 1980s!

« In xerography, these artists found freedom in the process; without requiring the labour of a photographer, they created confrontational and strangely compelling self-portraits. Commenting on the immediacy of the medium, and the intimacy between artist and machine, Slinger revellaking these ‘true self-portrait[s]’. Xerographic photocopying was widely introduced to the office space in the 1960’s, unpredictably openinto Slinger and Chadwick. Gibbens’ work testifies that the medium of xerography as a means of distorting the physical body is far from obsolete. By looking beyond the exhibition space, to the work of Denise Zygadlo, who was a friend and model of Chadwick’s, it becomes apparent that photocopying bodies continues to compel an extraordinary cohort of feminist artists. While xerography is just one strand of thematic links to be forged between, across and beyond the artist pairs in Body Poetics, I feel that this particular medium, and this curatorial approach, is a hugely intriguing way to dismantle potential intergenerational personal and political disconnect…»

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👀 View the exhibition of women writers by @susannedutoit2353 , have a drink 🥃 at the bar and then hear from Susanne's sitters (Sacha Llewellyn @rediscovering_art_by_women , Juliet Jacques and Dreda Say Mitchell) in conversation with fellow sitter @lara_feigel about artistic collaboration, what it is for a writer ✍️ to be the subject rather than the creator of a work of art and where writing and portraiture overlap. ⁠
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“In the first of a new series Maudji Mendel explores the life, work and collectability of unsung female artists, starting with the pioneering photographer Madame Yevonde”

Thank you to @nationalportraitgallery & @antiquesmag for their help in putting this article together…

‘Life in Colour’ will open at the National Portrait Gallery in London on June 22nd!

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Rediscovering Art by Women

Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)

Man at Work A Century of Technical and Social Progress

Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)

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