Philip Guston (1913–1980), Hooded, 1968, charcoal on cream paper Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum. Reproduced by permission of the artist’s estate.
• and perhaps most extraordinarily (given
Dougal McKenzie, who lives in Banbridge, is a painter
the recent furores over the postponement
and a lecturer at Belfast School of Art and is a member
of the Philip Guston exhibition in London,
of the FE McWilliam Gallery and Studio Programming
Washington, Houston and Boston), a small
Committee.
40.5 x 58.6 cm charcoal on paper from 1968 titled Hooded – a bandaged head that displays the nascent formation of what were to become the Ku Klux Klan characters in many of his late paintings.
Notes 1. https://www.armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk/f-emcwilliam-gallery-welcomes-british-museum-touringexhibition-living-with-art-picasso-to-celmins/
The closing credits for the Walker touring exhibition are, however, positive. Our longing to return to the cinema to watch the big screen, and also to see artworks in galleries and museums, may lead, thankfully, to a sort of resurgence once lockdown eases again, as we come to realise how much we have missed the social and physical interactions of the cinema, and equally, of going to look at art. Walker’s collection of works on paper, and his motivations for buying them in the first place, underline our human need for this beautifully.
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