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Lawrence Sculptor
Artist & Poet
[ 1873 – 1931 ]
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| Biographical information from the Tate: Atkinson
was considerably older than most of his fellow Vorticists. He trained as a musician in Paris and Berlin before taking up painting. Much of his early work has been lost, however, he appears to have painted landscapes in a fauvist style. According to the painter Kate Lechmere, Atkinson’s work underwent a dramatic transformation under the influence of Wyndham Lewis whose work he saw at the Rebel Art Centre. In 1915 he published a collection of poems called ‘Aura’. In these poems he extolled his passion for the ‘undiscovered Countries’ of the modern metropolis whose ‘flame-bound windows/And their lightning shadows…tune the stolid rhythms of the walls/To the brilliant harmonies/Of the greater moment-‘. September 2004 |
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Cover Image: The Sky Pilot by Lawrence
Atkinson
Wheels,
Third Cycle
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Lawrence Atkinson contributed to Edith
Sitwell’s small magazine Wheels
Wheels is online at the Modernist
Journals Project
Wheels,
Third Cycle
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1918,114 pages.
William Roberts was in Wheels, 4th
Cycle & Wheels, Sixth
Cycle
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— The full text is online at archive.org The New Art: a study of the principles of non-representational art and their application in the work of Lawrence Atkinson  by Horace Shipp; Publisher: London, Cecil Palmer, 1922 |
from: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of
Emily Carr
“Only half an hour left of 1930. I finished Flora’s book,
The Art of Lawrence Atkinson,
and found lots of things to remember and digest. I love his
abstracts. I feel there is
very much in abstraction but it must be abstraction with a
reason, that is there must be an
underlying truth – something, the pith or kernel, the inner
essence of the thing to expressed.”
– Emily Carr (Flora is her friend, Flora Burns)
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The
Lake Lawrence Atkinson Date c.1915–20 Medium Ink and watercolour on paper Dimensions Support: 254 x 368 mm Collection: Tate Acquisition Purchased 1965 |
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 _______________ Abstract Wiki Gallery via wikipedia |
 _____________ Lawrence Atkinson Artwork details: 129.5 x 50.8cm
Material
: oil on wood www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk |
Coterie ( No. 2 )
London: Hendersons, 1919-09
Lawrence Atkinson, Still Life, page 46
Full issues of Coterie are
available online at the Modernist
Journals Project:
 Vorticist Composition 1913/14 www.courtgallery.com |
 Abstract No. 1 Gouache |
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Richard Warren has an interesting essay on Lawrence Atkinson on his website: richardawarren.wordpress.com It’s worth a read if you’re interested in Atkinson. The website as a whole is worth a look. Below is a screen shot of his web page header to show the range of artists and writers covered on the site. Helen Saunders has one of the best pages so far on the net, and there’s a page on Jessica Dismorr and one on George Barker. Dismorr’s page includes some of her writings. |
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Composition
ink on paper
Journal of the Arts and Politics – Issue #17
