August

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Twelve Months of Flowers: August (no date) by Jacob van Huysum.

The eighth month in paintings. Alan Bennett is a British artist, not to be confused with the well-known British playwright of the same name. There is, however, a slight connection between playwright and Henry Scott Tuke: Bennett’s BBC film Portrait or Bust (1994) involves an exploration of Leeds Art Gallery during which there’s a glimpse of Tuke’s The Bathers, one of the artist’s many studies of unclothed boys.

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August Blue (1893–4) by Henry Scott Tuke.

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August Afternoon near Dorking (1904) by TF Wilkinson.

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August in the City (1945) by Edward Hopper.

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Moths and Men with Hay, August (1960) by Mary Newcomb.

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August Landscape (1967) by Alan Bennett.

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Blackberries in August, Muswell Hill, London (1980) by John Pearce.

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August Painting (Big Blue) (2002) by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.

One thought on “August”

  1. The Mary Newcomb reminds me a little of one of Australia’s really interesting landscape painters, the late Fred Williams.

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