Murals & Decorative Painting 1920-1960

This book is illustrated with a series of specially commissioned photographs that record some of the least known but most remarkable mural cycles in Great Britain. In the vast majority of cases these works have previously only been reproduced in black and white if at all. Today murals are rarely seen as the artist intended. Often they are partially obscured, especially where there has been a change of building use. Frequently works are completely covered up or painted over examples include murals by Mary Sargent Florence, Mary Adshead, Eric Ravilious, Dora Carrington, William Roberts and Gilbert Spencer. Where murals survive they are more often than not displaced works. Historic photographs showing John Piperís The Englishmanís Home at The Festival of Britain, in situ on the river side of the Homes and Gardens Pavilion on Belvedere Road, come as a revelation; a digital reconstruction of Frank Brangwynís Empire panels for The House of Lords, seen in situ as they were originally intended, gives a dramatically more favourable impression than their final installation in The Brangwyn Hall, Swansea.

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Works Featured in this catalogue

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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
The Last Supper, St Joseph’s, Stokesley, 1946
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Parrot – Original Study for the Great Empire Panels

£975.00

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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for the Morley College mural
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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Kneeling workman – study for Campion Hall, circa 1940
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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for The Visitation, c. 1942
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Hans Tisdall (1910 - 1997)
Fresco Secco for Dining Hall in a Secondary School Kuwait, for His Highness Sheikh Sir Abdulla Al Subah, early 1950’s
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Sketch for the background landscape of the Hilly Fields mural frieze at Brockley County School for Boys [HMO 429, 552 & 524]
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Colour sketch for the Hilly Fields mural frieze at Brockley County School for Boys [HMO 525]

£2,875.00

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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Colour sketch for the Hilly Fields mural frieze at Brockley County School for Boys, including incidental sketches [HMO 430]
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Studies for the Brockley mural panel The Country Girl and the Pail of Milk, 1933 [HMO 645]
Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)
Study for Man at Work – a century of technical and social progress, 1961

£2,800.00

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Gilbert Spencer (1892 - 1979)
Study for Hebridean Memory, 1951
Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades (1898 - 1980)
Study for a mural design, circa 1920

£470.00

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Lunette design for a school mural, 1930’s

£2,300.00

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Boats and lobster baskets, Mural Design for a school in Birmingham, circa 1950
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Interior with woodburners and plants, Mural Design for a school in Birmingham, circa 1950
Study for Boats and lobster baskets, Mural Design for a school in Birmingham, circa 1950

£500.00

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Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study in two sheets for ‘Working Boats’, Mural of the Nelson Bar, HMS Campania, 1951
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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Morley College Mural, 1928
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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Morley College mural, far left, circa 1928
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Garison Lane Nursery Training School, circa 1930

£1,400.00

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Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Design for the ceiling of the Mary Harris Memorial Chapel of Holy Trinity, University of Exeter, 1956
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

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Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Study for mural for tea room, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, c.1949
Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Study for Venice Biennale Murals 1905

£1,580.00

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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
Men carrying a basket -Study for Court of the Ages, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1914
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Farmers ploughing, Study for The World’s Food mural, c. 1942

£1,100.00

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Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Study for the First Students Union Mural, circa 1964
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Archibald Ziegler (1903 - 1971)
Study for the Toynbee Hall murals, 1932
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Anne Newland (1913 - 1997)
Study for The Legend of Ceres, inscribed with title and dated 1949-1955
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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Muse – study for Campion Hall, circa 1940
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for the Sleeve of Thomas More, 1932

£1,060.00

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Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study for the North arch of St Peter’s Church, Bexhill-on-Sea, 1951
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Herbert Victor Tempest (1913 - 2003)
The Wedding ceremony, 1930’s
Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Mural design for The Good Intent – Dr Johnson with the Chelsea China Factory, 1935

£975.00

Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Mural design for The Good Intent with Carlyle, Whistler and Stunners, Cremorne Gardens, 1935

£1,580.00

Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Mural design forThe Good IntentCremorne Gardens, 1935

£1,300.00

Arthur Kemp (1906 - 1968)
Boxing match, circa 1930

£400.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Emblems of the Virgin, design for Campion Hall altarpiece, circa 1941

£1,200.00

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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Muse with cello, circa 1950
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Frank Brangwyn (1867 - 1956)
A collection of over 20 original designs for SS Empress of Britain, 1930-31
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Muriel Minter (1897 - 1983)
Woman leaning against a wall
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Eric Fraser (1902 - 1983)
Design for the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1938
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Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Design for the main staircase of the British Museum 1966
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Herbert Victor Tempest (1913 - 2003)
Marrying Out of the Faith, circa 1932
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Herbert Victor Tempest (1913 - 2003)
Troupe of Pierrots Serenading Three Dancers, circa 1932
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Men Drinking, circa 1936
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1942

£15,000.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Design for the altar wall, Annunciation in an Allotment, partially coloured, circa 1942

£5,750.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of a cherub, for Campion Hall, early 1940’s

£1,500.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Design for the altar wall, Annunciation in an allotment, circa 1942

£7,750.00