Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)

Spring

£2,450.00

SKU: 10387
Pen & ink and gouache
Presentation:
framed

Size:
Height – 44cm x Width – 31.7cm

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DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
The Artist’s Family

Exhibited: Sanctuary, Artist-Gardeners, 1919-39, Garden Museum, London, 25th February – 5 April, 2020

Literature: Christopher Woodward, Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners, 1919–1939, published by Liss Llewellyn, 2020

Mahoney’s unbridled enthusiasm for plants extended to included the objects and implements found in gardens – watering cans, greenhouses, wheelbarrows, spades etc.  His interest and aesthetic sensibility were shared with his contemporaries Edward Bawden, Geoffrey Rhoades, John Nash and Evelyn Dunbar, withwhom he swapped cuttings by post.  Mahoney was instrumental in helping Bawden layout his celebrated garden at Brick House, and Bawden in turn was asked  to contribute the foreword to Mahoney and Dunbar’s 1937 book Gardener’s Choice.


Elizabeth Bulkeley, the artist’s daughter, recalls her father’s passion thus:

Beneath the south wall of his studio my father made wigwams of canes to support multicoloured gourds and deep blue Morning Glory trumpets. He grew many kinds of Polygonum. Some, like P. cuspidatum, were statuesque giants, others, were delicate and lacy. He appreciated flowers such as tulips and Opium Poppies for their slender upright form with a burst of bloom at the top, as they popped up between bushier plants throughout the garden. Lilies likewise shot through the foliage of other plants and exploded in exquisite flowers. Auriculas were a particular passion. He loved the primly formal arrangement which complemented the sumptuous colour combinations. (letter to Paul Liss 15th March 2005)

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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 of a seated muse

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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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The Emblems of the Virgin, a study for Campion Hall , early 1940

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Study for the Morley College mural

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A small Christmas Tree, circa 1940

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Thistles in a glass jar, circa 1930

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Sheet of flower studies with Tulipa Eichleri

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Study of poppy heads, 1930’s

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A sheet of studies of roses

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Bathsheba, late 1940’s

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Gas Mask Drill, Ambleside, circa 1942

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Gas Mask Drill, Ambleside, circa 1942

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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

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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

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Encampment

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Street scene – design for a mural, circa 1925

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Christmas tree in pot, 1956

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Study for Morley College Mural, 1928

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Study for Gardener’s Choice, c. 1935

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Portrait of a young man, three quarter view, head, circa 1930

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

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Caravan at Penvensey, ’58

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Study for Morley College Mural, The Pleasures of Life, circa 1928

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Ambleside, circa 1942

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Landscape with Chesnut Tree, circa 1930

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Portloe, circa 1957

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

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Cloud study
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Study of a lower arm

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Details study of a pear tree

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

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Rural Cottage

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Figure outside house – circa 1935

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Study for the Sleeve of Thomas More, 1932

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The Willow Grove, Great Bardfield, Spring 1933

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Distant view of Cotswolds Farm cottage, late 1920s

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Roses

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Study of various flowers

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Mullein leaves with mildew silvering the greens

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Roses, Lilies and Tree Trunk

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Sheet of studies of a Muse

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The Artist and his Muses, c 1950

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Allegory

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Study of an apple tree with finch

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Women and Flowers

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

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Gourd

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Study of plant bulbs, circa 1940

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The waiting room, circa 1930

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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

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Woodburner, circa 1940

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Study of the artist’s hat

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Sunflower and ferns

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Study for the Garden full length

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Study for woman on ladder, Autumn, circa 1951

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Drapery Study for a Muse, 1927

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Still life in an orange box with Sweet Williams and Iris

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Study of woman and dress

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The return of the prodigal son, mid 1920’s

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Standing nude, rear view

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The Art Student, circa 1960

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Woman Reading, circa 1950

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Decorated hat, circa 1950

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Study of dress

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

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

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Sunflowers

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Still life with paint pot and flowers in a vase

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Study of Anemones in a decorated vase

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The hearth at Oak Cottage, circua 1938

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Sheet of studies with Palm, circa 1930

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Study of Nasturtiums

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Adam and Eve Seen through a Window

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The beach at Pevensey, circa 1958

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View from Oak Cottage, winter snow, circa 1938
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Curtain study for ‘Christmas tree in pot’, 1956

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Two boys playing on a street pavement

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Study for The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1942

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

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Illustration to Children’s fable, circa 1930
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Study of a cherub, for Campion Hall, early 1940’s

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Bonfire of the vanities, circa 1950

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Adoration of the Shepherds, (Winter), c.1942
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