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
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