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Creator:
John Minton, 1917–1957
Title:
The Dream
Date:
ca. 1945
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on copper (copper engraved on verso)
Dimensions:
5 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (14 x 23.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948
Copyright Status:
© Royal College of Art
Accession Number:
B2009.9.53
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B2009.9.53FR
Subject Terms:
arches | bridge (built work) | building | dreams | landscape | man | moon | night | nude | nude in art | portrait | sky | staircase | stairs | Surrealist | woman
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:61503
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During the 1930s and 1940s, John Minton was associated with a loosely knit group of artists now known as the neoromantics, due to their imaginative approach toward nature and the human figure inspired by nineteenth-century visionary artists like William Blake and Samuel Palmer. By the mid-1940s, Minton was open yet conflicted about his homosexuality, which was illegal at the time in England, and depicted male figures—sometimes, as here, in clandestine self-portrait—in dreamlike landscapes or spaces fraught with sexual tension and intrigue. An advocate of figuration in painting, Minton grew increasingly out of step with newer abstract styles emerging around 1950 and as the decade wore on, he developed mental health problems and began seriously abusing alcohol. He took his own life in 1957, at the age of thirty-nine.

Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)

A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]

Simon Martin, John Minton A Centenary, Pallant House Gallery, West Sussex, p. 14, fig.6, NJ18 M67 M37 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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