Love in a Mist: Early 20th century watercolours
Lady Lever Art Gallery
22 June - 1 December 2002
This charming display of 14 watercolours by Robert Anning Bell and his
contemporaries takes its name from a work by J Herbert MacNair.
J Herbert MacNair, his wife Frances and Robert Anning Bell taught in the
University of Liverpool’s Applied Art department and promoted the ideals
of the Arts and Crafts movement amongst their students.
The exponents of the Arts and Crafts movement emphasised the beauty of
craftsmanship for its own sake. They made no distinction between fine and
decorative arts, working on book illustrations, paintings, mosaics, stained
glass, murals and posters.
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The Balcony by Robinson
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These artists were influenced by the dream-like subjects of Burne-Jones and the
decorative schemes of French painter Puvis de Chavannes, rejecting the
narrative tradition of previous decades. Instead they produced imagery relating
to inner worlds of mystery and imagination.
The exhibition includes a theatre design by Charles Ricketts, plus delicate and
meticulous works by Maxwell Armfield and E Reginald Frampton. It also features
Frederick Cayley Robinson, w ho like Frampton used egg tempera to give images a
fresco-like texture.
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