14 May - 23 October 2022
The Maas Gallery has lent Glyn Philpot's Miss Isabel McBirney to Pallant House Gallery's exhibtion: Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Blood (14 May - 23 October 2022).
The first major exhibition of British artist Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937) in almost 40 years. Bringing together over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many unseen in public for decades, the exhibition charted the artist’s development from Edwardian society portraits to his shift to a radically modernist style in the 1930s.
The exhibition included his portraits of actors, dancers, poets, society hostesses, male lovers and friends, examining his important contribution to the sensitive representation of Black sitters from the 1910s to 1930s, and his exploration of both queer and religious subjects... READ MORE