Came across an image of CHERUBS ABOVE THE SEA in place in St. Thomas Church, Ardwick Green, Manchester, before their removal. Hoping to visit MATER TRIUMPHALIS in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, in a couple of weeks - I will update the page pictures if I can get some good photos. A work I had entitled …
Author: Jonathan
THOUGHTS (image attribution uncertain).
In the exhibition catalogue of the posthumous exhibition of works collected by George McCulloch (1848-1907) and his wife Mary Agnes Mayger (1857-1945), a work by Annie is listed: THOUGHTS ... Half figure of an old woman, seated facing the spectator, leaning on a balustrade. Signed and dated, "Annie. L. Swynnerton, Roma, 1900." Canvas, 28 by …
Web site redesign complete.
The redesign of the web site is complete. The purpose was (1) to educate myself about Annie and (2) create a 'home' for all the images of her works that I could find. I will no longer be maintaining the site except to post newly discovered art works, but won't be actively looking for them. …
ST. MARTIN’S SUMMER.
Image: no image available. From The Art Journal, 1909, p253: Mrs. Swynnerton’s ‘St. Martin’s Summer’ is a most glad and confident painting. It should be seen as a decoration, making a single space of radiant colour, free of the confusions of colours surrounding it in a picture gallery. Her art is careless of particulars in …
THE UNRELENTING PAST.
Image: none available. From American Art News, vol. 17, no. 21 (1 March 1919): "a portrait study of an old peasant woman by Annia Swynnerton, the technique delightful, the color warm and rich and the human appeal irresistible." In The Evening News, 24 October 1933, the title is given as "The Unrelenting Path." Medium: oil …
MONTAGNA MIA.
Montagna mia translates as 'mountain mine.' Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: 1.83 x 1.12 m (2.1 m²). History: c. 1923 (artuk.org), 1923 (notice by painting, Manchester Art Gallery); Annie Louise Swynnerton bequest to Manchester Art Gallery, 1934; exhibited Manchester Art Gallery retrospective of Annie’s works, 23 February 2018 to 6 January 2019. Location: Manchester Art …
A LADY WEARING A FEATHER BOA (attributed).
Only known from a black-and-white image in The Illustrated London News, 5 Apr 1893, where it is reported on Exhibition at the New Gallery. Although stated in the picture caption to be by Annie, it is not typical of her style and no other reference known, so may not be by her. Medium: oil on …
