SANCTUARY: Artist-Gardeners 1919-39

Many of the artists in this catalogue had a particularly strong attachment to gardens and gardening ñ taking their activities as plantsmen and plantswomen as seriously as they took their art. Charles Mahoney shared his unbridled enthusiasm for plants with Edward Bawden, Geoffrey Rhoades, John Nash and Evelyn Dunbar who swapped cuttings with each other by post. Evelyn Dunbar, along with Charles Mahoney and John Nash, produced
books on the subject. And most of Harry Bushís oeuvre evolved around painting and repainting his garden in the London suburbs of SW19.

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Works Featured in this catalogue

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Edward Julius Detmold (1883 - 1957)
Kingfisher Upon a Branch with Wild Roses
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
A unique set of Eric Gill’s Procreant Hymn, printed on chine appliqué  paper

£3,750.00

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Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Apples on a Branch
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Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study for vignette for Gardeners’ Choice (Routledge, London, 1937)
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
The Egg Thieves

£750.00

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Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864 - 1942)
A Nymph, circa 1906
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Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864 - 1942)
Bacchus, (cream ground), circa 1906
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Farm Equipment, Berkshire

£1,750.00

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Portrait of Mary Adshead, probably at work in the artist’s garden at Haverstock Hill, London

£2,750.00

Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Christmas Tree, circa 1938

£4,900.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Sheet of flower studies with Tulipa Eichleri

£3,850.00

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Winifred Knights (1899 - 1947)
Study of bluebells for The Flight into Egypt, c.1938
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
An Unpleasant Surprise

£950.00

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
John’s House

£875.00

Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Evening Primroses in a London Garden

£875.00

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)
Abstract floral forms, circa 1960

£385.00

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe R.A. (1901 - 1979)
The Shire Stallion, 1934

£375.00

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David Evans (1929 - 1988)
Red Anemone
Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)
The snow laden garden at Llwyn-On, Croesyceiliog, circa 1935

£800.00

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Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)
The Parable of the Sower, circa 1942
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Carolyn Sergeant (1937 - 2018)
Tulip Petals
Carolyn Sergeant (1937 - 2018)
A Christmas Pudding, 1991

£1,775.00

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Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)
The Kings Lesson by William Morris, 1919
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Finnial decorations

£875.00

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Mahoney, Charles Dunbar, Evelyn & ()
Design for a Country Suburban Garden for Gardeners Choice
Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)
Boy Scaring Crows, 1925

£1,800.00

Ludovic-Rodolphe (RODO) Pissarro (1878 - 1952)
Back to the Land “Farming”

£3,800.00

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John Nash (1893 - 1977)
Study of Amaryllis ‘St Josephs Lily’ (Hippeastrum Johnsonii) in a flower pot
John Nash (1893 - 1977)
Study of Petunias

£975.00

Joseph Southall (1861 - 1944)
Sable Fur, 26.III.1910

£1,200.00

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Mahoney, Charles Dunbar, Evelyn & ()
Proposed design for a country or suburban garden for Gardeners Choice
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Mahoney, Charles Dunbar, Evelyn & ()
Design for page 123, Gardeners Choice 1937
Winifred Knights (1899 - 1947)
Sheet of Studies of Snowdrops, circa 1922

£1,200.00

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Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)
When I Consider the Heavens, Psalms (BPL 644), 1952
Lambert Guenther (b. 1883)
Get behind the girl he left behind him Join the land army. circa 1918

£1,800.00

Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)
Decorating the Font, 1946

£175.00

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Frederick Austin (1902 - 1990)
Apple orchard with chopped wood and chickens, circa 1935
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Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Ambleside, possibly the waterhead hotel, circa 1942
Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)
Falling Rain with Raised Flag

£7,450.00

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Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Woman and Sickle, 1933
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Sea Bouquet 1940

£880.00

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Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Man with scythe, 1932/3
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Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Cyprus Tree, study for The Appian Way, circa 1932
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Sketch for examination competition, People Seeking After Wisdom, March 1,1928

£2,500.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Roses

£680.00

Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Studies for watering can, mid 1930’s

£2,500.00

Dorothy Mahoney [nee Bishop] (1902 - 1984)
Walled Garden Amongst Kentish Orchards, early 1950’s

£6,500.00

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William S Taylor (1920 - 2010)
The Sunne Rising
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Joseph Simpson (1879 - 1939)
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