This on-line exhibition, exploring gardens, sunlight, leisure, and play – from seaside holidays and village fêtes to lyrical landscapes and sun-drenched still lifes – takes its title from Cecil Collins’ lyrical 1954 composition: The Fools of Summer.
Works FEATURED in this Exhibition
SKU: 13096
(8.9cm x 7.6cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Original carved woodblock for “Birdhouse”, (Physick 933), 1937
£8,000.00
SKU: 13095
(6cm x 7cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Leda Waiting (Physick 616), 1929
£800.00
SKU: 13094
(11.5cm x 7.5cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Belle Sauvage IV (Physick 623), 1929
£800.00
SKU: 13093
(11.5cm x 7.5cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Belle Sauvage II: girl standing (Physick 606), wood-engraving, signed by the artist and numbered “USA 4/10”, 1929
£800.00
SKU: 13092
(11.5cm x 7.5cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
The Bird in the Bush (Physick 505), 1928
£800.00
SKU: 13091
(26.8cm x 19.8cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (Physick 276), 1924
£600.00
SKU: 13090
(22.7cm x 17cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Xenia Noelle Lowinsky (Physick 278), 1924
£800.00
SKU: 13089
(17.5cm x 11cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Portrait of a lady [Moira, Mrs Gibbings] (Physick 296), Copper-engraving on laid paper, 1925
£800.00
SKU: 13088
(17.5cm x 12.5cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Portrait of Elizabeth Gill in profile (Physick 279)
£800.00
SKU: 11127
(15.5cm x 9.8cm)
Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989)
Ellen and Her Children (BPL578), 1944
£395.00
SKU: 11397
(355cm x 505cm)
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
Psychedelic stripes, circa 1970
£895.00
SKU: 6601
(40.6cm x 33cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Mary Adshead Sketching
£4,500.00
SKU: 13029
(53cm x 73cm)
Charles Sims (1873 - 1928)
The Muses
£9,500.00
Sold
SKU: 8108
(67cm x 100cm)
David Evans (1929 - 1988)
Poppy landscape
SKU: 12125
(36cm x 33cm)
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Persicaria orientalis (also known as Kiss-Me-Over-The-Garden-Gate)
£1,475.00
SKU: 13010
(27cm x 37cm)
Ernest Albert Chadwick (1876–1955)
The garden of Laurence W. Hodson at Bradbourne Hall
£950.00
SKU: 2640
(19cm x 14cm)
Dorothy Mahoney [nee Bishop] (1902 - 1984)
Walled Garden Amongst Kentish Orchards, early 1950’s
£6,500.00
SKU: 13051
(38cm x 50cm)
Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)
Botanical Drift
£650.00
SKU: 12091
(30cm x 31.5cm)
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Mahoney Flowers Study
£975.00
SKU: 12088
(27cm x 35cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
The Broad Walk, Regents Park
£2,450.00
SKU: 12086
(33cm x 41cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Parliament Hill
£2,950.00
SKU: 9738
(31.7cm x 28cm)
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of a sunflower head, mid 1930’s
£975.00
SKU: 1627
(31cm x 27cm)
Imre Goth (1893 - 1982)
Das Kasperle-Theatre 1930
SKU: 1502
(14.3cm x 24cm)
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
Study for Kensington Gardens, 1923
£2,500.00
SKU: 12101
(63cm x 78.5cm)
Gustave Louis Jaulmes (1873-1959)
Still life with sun hat and striped shawl, c1930
£4,950.00
SKU: 11892
(60.5cm x 100.5cm)
Willem Johan Barbieri (1948-2019)
‘If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden. If your thought is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.’
£2,500.00
SKU: 11901
(76cm x 102cm)
Willem Johan Barbieri (1948-2019)
Black Jack
£3,750.00
SKU: 4554
(28cm x 24.5cm)
Charles Cundall (1890 - 1971)
Industrial Panorama of Sheffield, c 1930
£1,950.00
SKU: 13086
(12cm x 10cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Woodcut – Illustration from Clothes, 1931
£900.00
SKU: 13024
(33cm x 27cm)
Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)
Flowers II
£600.00
SKU: 13023
(37cm x 30cm)
Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)
Flowers 1
£600.00
SKU: 13022
(17cm x 27cm)
Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)
Pigeon Script in Orange and Yellow, circa 1940’s
£550.00
SKU: 11974
(20cm x 28cm)
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Pruning in the Orchard
£1,275.00
SKU: 11100
(28cm x 38cm)
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Royal College of Art Sketch Club Annual Summer Camp, 1930
£1,900.00
SKU: 11896
(100cm x 100cm)
Willem Johan Barbieri (1948-2019)
Adam and Eve
£2,625.00
SKU: 13009
(27cm x 37cm)
Ernest Albert Chadwick (1876–1955)
The house and garden of Laurence W. Hodson at Bradbourne Hall
£1,250.00
SKU: 13087
(11.3cm x 7cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
For Dignity & Adornment (Physick 483) – Copper Engraving
£600.00
SKU: 11928
(cm x cm)
Amy Finney (1912 - 1987)
Flowers 3
£1,000.00
SKU: 13084
(6.8cm x 7.4cm)
Eric Gill (1882 - 1940)
Boots, gloves, hats and jewellery – Woodcut illustration for Clothes, 1931
£1,100.00
SKU: 11869
(27cm x 34cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Morcombe Bay?
£1,325.00
SKU: 11878
(25cm x 35.5cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Boats Yarmouth Isle of Wight
£1,600.00
Sold
SKU: 11882
(27cm x 35cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Blue Scene, possibly Isle of Arran, October 1928
Private
SKU: 12079
(23.2cm x 34.2cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Evening Weymouth, 1946
SKU: 2162
(29cm x 39cm)
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Still life with paint pot and flowers in a vase
£1,900.00
SKU: 11748
(54.5cm x 38cm)
Marion Adnams (1898 - 1995)
Corn Doll Cornucopia
£2,250.00
SKU: 11531
(20.5cm x 24.2cm)
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
Tirzah on a cockerel, 1931
£395.00
SKU: 11393
(285cm x 385cm)
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
In the Country, circa 1970
£700.00
SKU: 11379
(370cm x 483cm)
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
Family Outing, circa 1970
£995.00
Sold
SKU: 277
(25.5cm x 35cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
The Twelve Pins from Ballyconneely
SKU: 429
(27cm x 35cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Mary Adshead on the Beach
£1,650.00
SKU: 124
(30cm x 35.5cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon
£950.00
SKU: 11385
(385cm x 500cm)
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
In the Park, circa 1970
£790.00
SKU: 11147
(29.7cm x 21cm)
Tirzah Garwood-Ravilious (1908 - 1951)
The Dog Show, 1929
£2,450.00
SKU: 11404
(445cm x 345cm)
Kathleen Guthrie (1905 - 1981)
Cat and Flowers, late 1950’s
£3,850.00
SKU: 11222
(2.7cm x 2.7cm)
Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)
‘Satires in Stones, The Sportsman’. Watercolour. 1923.
Sold
SKU: 11163
(12.7cm x 10cm)
Marion Wallace Dunlop (1864 - 1942)
A Nymph from Devils in Diverse Shapes, circa 1906
SKU: 10019
(53.5cm x 39cm)
Hubert Arthur Finney (1905 - 1991)
Room Overlooking the Sea, circa 1930
£2,850.00
SKU: 9112
(38.1cm x 55.9cm)
Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)
New Zealand – from the series of Nations
£1,440.00
SKU: 9099
(38.7cm x 55.9cm)
Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)
Australia I, late 1930’s
£1,600.00
SKU: 9044
(35cm x 52.1cm)
Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)
Farm Scene
£3,500.00
SKU: 8893
(48.3cm x 37.5cm)
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
Streamers and Heads, Drawing for Festival Poster, 1951
£8,500.00
SKU: 8768
(21cm x 29.8cm)
Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)
Study for Hyde Park, circa 1930
£725.00
SKU: 8761
(21.6cm x 27cm)
Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)
Study of Hyde Park, circa 1931
£525.00
SKU: 8489
(88cm x 73cm)
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Still-life of Red Lily with Leopard Skin
£15,000.00
SKU: 7574
(43.8cm x 32.3cm)
Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)
Study for Hyde Park in Summer – the artist’s sister Margaret with a bicycle , 1931
£275.00
SKU: 7302
(31cm x 41cm)
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
The Landlady’s Daughters, Llanbedre, near Harlech, c. 1941
£8,950.00
SKU: 7303
(5cm x 35cm)
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
St Tropez, c. 1931
£2,500.00
SKU: 7058
(91.4cm x 59cm)
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Design for poster; Pictures of Spain and Scotland, 1920’s
£675.00
SKU: 4746
(54cm x 35.5cm)
Barbara Constance Freeman (1906 - 1999)
Study of a seated lady with pink hat, circa 1925
£450.00
SKU: 4408
(29cm x 42cm)
Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)
The Merry Go Round, Newport, circa 1925
£850.00
SKU: 4327
(20cm x 29cm)
Stanley Lewis (1905 - 2009)
Study for Hyde Park, Figures (2), 1931
£480.00
SKU: 3889
(25cm x 34.5cm)
Raymond Sheppard (1913 - 1958)
Chipperfield Common Herts, circa 1950
£1,050.00
SKU: 3738
(38.5cm x 31.5cm)
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study for a Book jacket design, c. 1920
SKU: 1753
(32cm x 46.5cm)
John Sergeant (1937 - 2010)
A Peacock and Peahen, mid 1980s
£1,800.00
SKU: 1726
(45cm x 30cm)
Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades (1898 - 1980)
Bathers circa 1925
£990.00
SKU: 1001
(38cm x 25.5cm)
The Gentlewoman, (recto); Support Home Industries (verso), circa 1905
SKU: 11433
(483cm x 483cm)
John Hassall (1868 - 1948)
The original design for Tom Tom the Pipers Son (running with pig) circa, 1900 (Set of 4 available)