Saturday, August 31, 2013

Vaughan












1. Blue Bathers, 1952
2. Demolished Houses, St. John's Wood, 1953
3. Laborer Carrying Hod, 1954
4. Coastal Cottage, 1958
5. Porthmeor, 1961
6. Bather, 1961
7. Standing Figure, 1963
8. Two Figures, 1964-66
9. Gouache, 1965
10. Gouache, 1965
11. Ninth Assembly of Figures (Eldorado Banal), 1976

Last year the final volume of the journals of Keith Vaughan was published to mark the centenary of the painter's birth. As edited by Gerard Hastings, Drawing To A Close covers a time-span of just over two years, from mid-1975 to late 1977 when Vaughan died at age 65. Reading it motivated me to take another look at the paintings, having earlier stared at different ones and pondered them here.