Charles March Gere, RA, RWS

Early Morning, Tuscan Lake, Watercolour Over Pencil and Ink Painting, 1926

1926

Painswick, Watercolour Over Pencil Painting by Charles March Gere, 1930s circa Additional information: Medium: Watercolour over pencil 15.5 x 29.5 cm 6 1/8 x 11 5/8 in Signed and titled verso Charles March Gere RA RWS was an English painter, illustrator of books, and stained glass and embroidery designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He painted his signal work in 1897 entitled The Lady of Grey Days.The painting was purchased in 1912 and given to Aurora Howard, a descendant of the Earl of Carlisle (of Castle Howard). It was last seen...

Horses by a Lake (Snowdonia), Watercolour on Linen Painting, 1926 Additional information: Medium: Watercolour on linen 36.5 x 51.5 cm 14 3/8 x 20 1/4 in Signed and dated Charles March Gere RA RWS was an English painter, illustrator of books, and stained glass and embroidery designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He painted his signal work in 1897 entitled The Lady of Grey Days.The painting was purchased in 1912 and given to Aurora Howard, a descendant of the Earl of Carlisle (of Castle Howard). It was last seen...

Bait Store, Iceland, Watercolour by Leon Underwood, 1923 Additional information: Medium: Watercolour 43.7 x 51.1 cm 17 1/4 x 20 1/8 in Leon Underwood was a British sculptor, wood engraver, painter and writer of the twentieth century. Underwood was born 25 December 1890 in London, and studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic from 1907 to 1910, the R.C.A. from 1910 to 1913, and at the Slade School from 1919 to 1920 after undertaking war service between 1914 and 1918 during which he held the position of Captain in the R.E. Camouflage Section. Underwood was awarded a premium in the Rome Prize competition in 1920 but instead of going to Italy went to Iceland. He started his own school of drawing in 1921, and held his first one-man exhibition at the Chenil Galleries in 1922. He visited Holland in 1911, Russia in 1913, Dalmatia and Italy in 1925; he went to the United States and Canada between 1926 and 1927 during which time he published Animalia; he travelled in Mexico during 1928, studying Mayan and Aztec sculpture, and in Spain studying cave paintings. Underwood reopened his drawing school in 1931 and founded the magazine The Island, to which Henry Moore and C. R. W. Nevinson contributed. He wrote Art for Heaven's Sake in 1934, and served in Civil Defence Camouflage from 1939 to 1942. In 1945 Underwood visited West Africa and wrote several books on African...

Peter Potworowski 1898-1962 Cornwall, 1953/1954, circa watercolour 17.5 x 23 cm 6 7/8 x 9 in Tadeusz Piotr (Peter) Potworowski was a Polish abstract and figurative painter who lived...