Word: waddington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority. The proposition was surprising in almost every way, not least of all because it provoked practically no reaction from either the public or the press. It was supported by some of the highest ranking jurists in the land, notably the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker of Waddington, who argued that under the present jury setup "many, many guilty persons are acquitted...
Dealer Victor Waddington credits English painters with capturing Britain's "quality of nuance." He says: "Paris is in full decadence, is nothing but decoration. Americans had all the vitality between 1940 and 1950, but it has largely disappeared. Within five years. Britain will be the most important center...
...less known than he deserves, it is largely his own doing. He refused to have his paintings reproduced during his lifetime, exhibited rarely and reluctantly. Last week, four years after his death at 85, 63 of Yeats' drawings and watercolors were on display at London's Waddington Galleries. Almost every one of them has been sold. Said Eric Newton in the Man chester Guardian: "His uniqueness lay in his extraordinary gift for turning an Irish brogue and a Celtic pilt into pigment...
...time he painted The Horse Lover in 1930, his technique was loose, almost wild. The brush often surrendered to the palette knife; flat statement gave way to poetic suggestion; line and color broke and quivered with emotion. "Yeats," said Austrian Painter Oskar Kokoschka on hearing of the Waddington exhibition, "was an outsider who did not follow or belong to any school. All his work bears the mark of fantastic imagination and individuality.'' What was Yeats' best period? "As long as he was alive.'' said Kokoschka...