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Lawrence Sculptor
Artist & Poet
[ 1873 - 1931 ]
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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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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
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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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 _____________ Lawrence Atkinson Artwork details: 129.5 x 50.8cm Material
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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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