{"id":2649,"date":"2007-12-16T03:08:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T03:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2008-07-24T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T11:27:36","slug":"the-hound-of-heaven-by-rh-ives-gammell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/12\/16\/the-hound-of-heaven-by-rh-ives-gammell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hound of Heaven by RH Ives Gammell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Pictorial Sequence by RH Ives Gammell Based on
\nThe Hound of Heaven (1956):
\nleft: Panel II\u2014I Fled Him, Down The Nights and Down The Days.
\nright: Panel XI\u2014Would Clash It To.<\/em><\/p>\n

I mentioned Francis Thompson’s poem The Hound of Heaven<\/a> <\/em>in the Stella Langdale post<\/a> a couple of days ago. There don’t appear to be any examples of those pictures online but there are<\/em> a few samples of RH Ives Gammell<\/a>‘s remarkable paintings based on the same work which Claire alerted me to<\/a> last month. Gammell (1893\u20131981) was an American realist with a forthright attitude that set him against Modernist and later art trends yet he was still able to incorporate a more contemporary approach to composition in these unique works. Too often pitching yourself against the present results in the kind of reactionary posturing one sees at the Art Renewal Center<\/a> where they wish they could turn the clock back to a time before Picasso. Gammell was smarter than that and his Thompson paintings are a striking series of Tarot-like depictions of Christian mysticism.<\/p>\n

Once again I have to make the complaint that there aren’t many good reproductions of these works online at the moment; a complete set of the pictures would be a start. The paintings themselves can be seen at the Maryhill Museum of Art<\/a>, Goldendale, Washington, USA.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RH Ives Gammell by Elizabeth Ives Hunter<\/a>
\n\u2022 Transcending Vision; details of a 2001 exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The fantastic art archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The art of Stella Langdale, 1880\u20131976<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Pictorial Sequence by RH Ives Gammell Based on The Hound of Heaven (1956): left: Panel II\u2014I Fled Him, Down The Nights and Down The Days. right: Panel XI\u2014Would Clash It To. I mentioned Francis Thompson’s poem The Hound of Heaven in the Stella Langdale post a couple of days ago. There don’t appear to … Continue reading “The Hound of Heaven by RH Ives Gammell”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44,31],"tags":[165,552],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-religion","tag-picasso","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-GJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}