#rothenstein

[oncanvas]

Clouds, Anne Rothenstein, 2019-20

Oil on wood panel 122 x 91.5 cm (48 ⅛ x 36 ⅛ in.)

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Anne Rothenstein

Smoking, 2018

Oil on wood panel.

[resplendentoutfit]

1920s and 30s Orange Velvet Fashions

Orange, rust, or cinnamon – whatever the color name, it is exquisite and was very popular in both the 20s and the 30s.

William Rothenstein (1872-1945) • Gladys Calthrop • 1922

Yummy 1930s Gowns

1920's Formal Dresses

Alfred Egerton Cooper (British, 1883–1974) • Lady in Red Velvet • c. 1930

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

TIPPLER

Tippler, "Dusk to Dawn in the life of a Man-about-town, as shown by twenty-six different scenes, each decorating a letter of this tippler alphabet," was created by an anonymous designer sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The set is reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs).

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[thepaintedroom]

William Rothenstein (British/English, 1872–1945) • The Browning Readers • 1900 • Bradford Museums and Galleries, UK

[oldpaintings]

At the Window by Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872--1945)

[granstromjulius]

William Rothenstein

[thunderstruck9]

William Rothenstein (British, 1872-1945), Blasted Trees (blue version). Oil on canvas, 98 x 81 cm. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire

[portraituresque]

William Rothenstein - Self-Portrait - 1930

[hideousvampire]

imagine my cousin vinny but if they DID kill that guy but it had the same outcome anyway

[art-portraits]

Mother and Child

Artist: Sir William Rothenstein (English, 1872–1945)

Date: 1903

Medium: Oil paint on canvas

Collection: TATE Britain

Description

Rothenstein made a number of portraits of his family and close friends in which the interior is as important as the figure. In this painting the artist’s wife Alice is shown with their first child John, aged about two. The interior is the family’s house in Hampstead. Without any narrative intent, the painting can be interpreted as a simple celebration of motherhood. Rothenstein greatly admired seventeenth-century Dutch painting, and the colouring, lighting and pervading stillness evidently owes a debt to Dutch painter Jan Vermeer.

[canvasmirror]

William Rothenstein (British/English, 1872-1945) • Self-Portrait • c. 1925-30

I was struck by this self-portrait. William Rothenstein's gaze is direct and his expression is somewhat inscrutable. Clearly it's not a happy expression. Is it one of sorrow and resolve?

How do you read it?

[eretzyisrael]

[femmes-et-art]

William Rothenstein - Intérieur ou Dame au chapeau, 1891.

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

KAREL TEIGE

Presented here are the typographic photomontage designs by Czech avant-garde artist, writer, and designer Karel Teige (1900-1951) for the 24-poem sequence Abeceda (Prague, 1926) by his friend Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958), featuring dancer Milča Mayerová (1901-1977). All were members of the Czech avant-garde group Devětsil (1926-1930). These images are reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs).

Teige's designs are a demonstration of his Constructivist aim to create a new "optical language, a system of signs capable of embodying words in graphic figures." They are a manifestation of what László Moholy-Nagy had called for in his influential 1925 Bauhaus book Painting, Photography, Film -- the dynamic combination of photographic image and lettering he termed "typofoto."

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[thepaintedroom]

William Rothenstein (British, 1872 - 1945) • Mother and Child • 1903