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Armfield, Maxwell Ashby (1882-1972)

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Name
Armfield, Maxwell Ashby (1882-1972)
Nationality
English
Biography
(1882-1972)<br> The British painter and illustrator Maxwell Armfield is often associated with the North American school; a seven-year sojourn in the U.S.A. (1915-22) inspired some of his most significant landscapes and he achieved renown among the native artistic community. The juxtaposition of flat coloured and densely patterned surfaces lends his work a pronounced decorative quality. <br> <br> Armfield painted landscapes, portraits and still life. His work possesses an idiosyncratic charm and occasionally incorporates surreal elements. He subtly subverts conventional treatments. The strong graphic aspect and overall finish of Armfield’s work means that it preserves its impact when broken up or viewed in its entirety. Portraits such as that of Geoffrey Barker or Keith Henderson represent the sexually ambivalent ideal of the belle-epoque.<br>
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Assets (136 in total)

I plunged them deep with the locks of gold (pen and ink on paper)
Faustine Couple looks bored taking tea served in an aquamarine, 1904 (oil on canvas)
Music in New York, Homage to Johann Sebastian Bach, 1946 (tempera on board)
Mercury (pencil, gouache and w/c on paper)
Siegfried, Act III - To the Memory of Richard Wagner, 1905 (tempera on canvas)
San Gimignano (tempera on panel)
Self Portrait, 1901 (tempera on sketching board)
The Golden Violin, c.1898 (oil on canvas)
Portrait of Keith Henderson in a Black Hood, 1902 (tempera on board) c.1902
An Embroidery of Flowers, 1916 (textile)
Oxford Circus, 1905 (oil on board)
'Where the silence is more than all tunes, where sleep overflows from the heart', 1902 (pencil & w/c heightened with touches of bodycolour and with gum arabic on paper)
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