Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Kitchen at Oak Cottage, circa 1937

SKU: 9502
Oil on canvas

Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 45.7cm x Width – 35.5cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Estate

Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.59.

During his years as a student Mahoney lodged at a succession of addresses ‚Äì an inconvenience that his recurrent ill health coupled with financial hardship and unscrupulous landlords did little to relieve. It was against this background that Oak Cottage, his home from 1937, came to represent such permanence in his life and art. The cottage was too small for a studio so, weather allowing, Mahoney worked from a shed in the garden, or inside the cottage when it was too cold.

Acquired in 1937, Oak Cottage, in Wrotham, Kent, was very much Mahoney’s spiritual as well as actual home. Mahoney lived there from 1937-40, during which period he renovated it, and again from 1945 until his death in 1968. Once the garden that he planted had matured, he seldom worked anywhere else. For Mahoney, Oak Cottage had something of the quality with which Stanley Spencer imbued his childhood home, Fernlea; in both cases the frequent pictorial references to elements of the architecture and garden gives the location an almost mystical quality.



Oak Cottage

Photo; with thanks to Fred Hohler.

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THE ARTIST

Charles Mahoney
Charles
Mahoney
1903 - 1968

In his memoir Since 50, Men & Memories 1922-1938 (New York,1940, p. 236) the first two names that appear on William Rothenstein list of top Royal College of Art students were Henry Moore and Charles Mahoney – the list continues with the names of luminaries such as Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Barnett Freedman Edward Le Bas, and Evelyn Dunbar. The process of reassuring Mahoney’s place in 20th century British Art has had several important milestones including the 1975 Ashmolean exhibition, the Liss Fine Art/Fine Art Society touring show (2000) and Mahoney’s predominant feature in Tate Britain’s The Art of the Garden, (2005) – but the process of reassessment still has a long way to go.

Painter, muralist, draughtsman and teacher. Born Cyril Mahoney in London – his fellow-student Barnett Freedman re-christened him Charlie at the Royal College of Art, which he attended 1922-6 after a period at Beckenham School of Art under Percy Jowett. Early on, Mahoney established a reputation as a conscientious teacher. He was at the Royal College 1928-53, from 1948-53 as a painting tutor, and was noted there for his concern for academic discipline. His portrait is included in Rodrigo Moynihan’s celebrated Teaching Staff of the Painting School at the Royal College of Art, 1949-50. From 1954 to 1963 he taught at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and from 1961 to 1968 at the Royal Academy Schools. He painted murals at Morley College 1928-30 with his colleagues Eric Ravillious and Edward Bawden. Unfortunately these murals were destroyed during World War II. The work led to further murals: at Brockley School, Kent, with Evelyn Dunbar; and at Campion Hall Lady Chapel, Oxford. His oil paintings are frequently of a religious nature. He was a skilled botanist, and many of his drawings depict his garden at Wrotham, Kent. He exhibited at NEAC and the RA, being made an RA elect in 1968. He is represented in the Tate Gallery and other public collections. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, held a memorial exhibition in 1975. Exhibitions were held in 2000 at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Royal Museum and Art Gallery, Canterbury, and the Fine Art Society plc in association with Liss Fine Art.

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Study for Campion Hall Mural, Christ standing, circa 1942

£975.00

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Sheet of plant studies with Chrysanthemum flowers in a glass jar

£1,900.00

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Study of a seated muse

£975.00

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Figures fleeing from a giant

£600.00

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Study for praying woman, kneeling in profile, Campion Hall Chapel, circa 1942

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Study for Autumn, 1950
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Allegory of Four Winds, circa 1925
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Window sill with flower pot and bird

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A small Christmas Tree, circa 1940

£975.00

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Sheet of flower studies with Tulipa Eichleri

£3,850.00

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Study of poppy heads, 1930’s

£975.00

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A sheet of studies of roses

£1,950.00

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Bathsheba, late 1940’s

£4,350.00

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Study of Nicolas Poussins 1648 painting: Madonna on the steps, mid 1920s

£600.00

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Gas Mask Drill, Ambleside, circa 1942

£975.00

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Study of a soldier for Our Lady of Mercy, 1942
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Study of a piano accordeon, possibly a study for The Pleasures of Life, circa 1928

£420.00

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Eryngium Agavifolium, design for Gardeners Choice
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The full size preparatory cartoon for The Birth of the Virgin, Campion Hall, circa 1941

£1,950.00

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Street scene – design for a mural, circa 1925

£2,900.00

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Encampment

£2,900.00

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Study for Gardener’s Choice, c. 1935

£690.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Portrait of a young man, three quarter view, head, circa 1930

£775.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for The Clock and The Dial, mural at Brockley County School (now Prendergast – Hilly Fields School) 1935

£2,500.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Caravan at Penvensey, ’58

£3,500.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Ambleside, circa 1942

£1,650.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Landscape with Chesnut Tree, circa 1930

£1,960.00

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Portloe, circa 1957

£1,850.00

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Still life with artist’s pamphlet Christmas Coleus, 1940’s

£5,000.00

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Sandpit at Borough Green, circa 1950

£4,250.00

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Cloud study
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Details study of a pear tree

£700.00

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View from rear window at Mahoney’s family home, Anerley, c.1922

£1,190.00

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Rural Cottage

£1,075.00

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Figure outside house – circa 1935

£650.00

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Study for the Sleeve of Thomas More, 1932

£1,060.00

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The Willow Grove, Great Bardfield, Spring 1933

£6,500.00

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Distant view of Cotswolds Farm cottage, late 1920s

£5,750.00

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Roses

£680.00

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Mullein leaves with mildew silvering the greens

£1,675.00

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Roses, Lilies and Tree Trunk

£680.00

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Sheet of studies of a Muse

£640.00

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The Artist and his Muses, c 1950

£1,580.00

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Allegory

£860.00

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Study of an apple tree with finch

£700.00

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Women and Flowers

£1,140.00

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Studies for watering can, mid 1930’s

£2,500.00

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The Emblems of the Virgin, design for Campion Hall altarpiece, circa 1941

£1,200.00

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Gourd

£650.00

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Study of plant bulbs, circa 1940

£395.00

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The waiting room, circa 1930

£680.00

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Dorethy, the artist’s wife, sewing, circa 1945
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Still Life with Orange Box and Hand, c.1940

£1,275.00

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Woodburner, circa 1940

£650.00

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Study of the artist’s hat

£700.00

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Sunflower and ferns

£630.00

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Study for the Garden full length

£630.00

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Study for woman on ladder, Autumn, circa 1951

£860.00

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Drapery Study for a Muse, 1927

£3,500.00

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Still life in an orange box with Sweet Williams and Iris

£3,000.00

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Study of woman and dress

£860.00

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Standing nude, rear view

£860.00

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The Art Student, circa 1960

£750.00

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Woman Reading, circa 1950

£600.00

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The return of the prodigal son, mid 1920’s

£1,200.00

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Decorated hat, circa 1950

£575.00

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Study of dress

£860.00

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The Artist’s bedroom at The Queens Hotel, Ambleside, circa 1941

£1,980.00

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Study sheet with figures for Gas Mask Drill, 1939
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Girl standing, three quarter view

£650.00

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Sunflowers

£1,190.00

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Still life with paint pot and flowers in a vase

£2,900.00

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The hearth at Oak Cottage, circua 1938

£1,700.00

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Sheet of studies with Palm, circa 1930

£510.00

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Study of Nasturtiums

£2,150.00

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Adam and Eve Seen through a Window

£3,630.00

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Lily heads and stems, 1950s

£500.00

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The beach at Pevensey, circa 1958

£3,500.00

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Lenten Roses

£3,800.00

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Woodburner with Cosmos in a vase

£9,500.00

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Two boys playing on a street pavement

£990.00

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Study for The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1942

£15,000.00

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Design for the altar wall, Annunciation in an Allotment, partially coloured, circa 1942

£5,750.00

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Bonfire of the vanities, circa 1950

£1,930.00

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Study of a cherub, for Campion Hall, early 1940’s

£1,500.00

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Fleeing figures, mid 1920’s
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Adoration of the Shepherds, (Winter), c.1942

£8,750.00

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Design for the altar wall, Annunciation in an allotment, circa 1942

£7,750.00