LESLIE HURRY  [1909-78]
           'Psycho Dramas'
​Part 1 - oil paintings - 1928-78
Leslie Hurry was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy School of Art from 1927-31. 
He was one of the British 'Neo-Romantic' group of artists featured in the great exhibition at the Barbican in 1987:
 'A Paradise Lost - The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55', alongside Graham Sutherland, Michael Ayrton, Keith Vaughan, John Minton, John Craxton and John Piper. 

One-man exhibitions of his paintings were held at the Redfern Gallery in the 1940s; Roland, Browse & Delbanco in the 1950s and Mercury Gallery in the 1960s and 1970s.
Museum collections of his work include the Tate Gallery, who have some very good examples of his paintings.
A book 'Paintings by Leslie Hurry' was published by Grey Walls Press in 1950.

We will be publishing 3 small hard back books:
Volume 1 - Oil paintings: 1928-78;
Volume 2 - Early paintings on paper: 1942-59;
Volume 3 - Later paintings on paper: 1960-78. 

available from Styca Publishing - www.styca.com at £15 each [+£3 UK post] or £30 for the 3 volumes [+£5 UK post].
1.  Portrait by Candlelight, 1928, oil on board, 39 x 28 cm
2.  June, 1941, oil on canvas, 100 x 125 cm
      illustrated in the Barbican 'A Paradise Lost' catalogue, pl.90
3.  War - Famine, 1945, oil on board, 55 x 69 cm
4.  Famine - War, 1947, oil on board, 60 x 118 cm
     illustrated in 1950 book, pl.23 + in Barbican 'A Paradise Lost' catalogue no. 144 
5.  Woman in White, c. 1947, oil on board, 48 x 37 cm
6.  Clown, 1950, oil on board, 26 x 35 cm
7.  Head, c. 1950, oil on board, 48 x 37 cm
8.  Heads & Figure, c. 1966, oil on board, 103 x 90 cm
     
9.  Christians, 1974, oil on canvas, 25 x 57 cm
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10.   Beast Bird, 1974, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
11.   Abstract, c. 1969, oil on board, 38 x 50 cm
12.   Sickle Moon, c. 1970, oil on board, 35 x 54 cm
13.   Figures in a Sunset, 1974, oil on canvas, 32 x 44 cm
14.   White Sky, c. 1970, oil on board, 43 x 54 cm
15.   Mist, c. 1970, oil on board, 41 x 53 cm
16.   Abstract, c. 1970, oil on board, 31 x 26 cm
17.   Landscape with Creatures, 1970, oil on board, 26 x 17 cm
18.   Orange Abstract with Head, c. 1970, oil on board, 37 x 27 cm
19.   Figures Regrouping, 1975, oil on canvas, 35 x 75 cm
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