Writer and artist Wyndham Lewis produced a number of portraits in oils; these drawings and lithographs, however, are smaller-scale studies of British between-the-wars luminaries (plus the Irish Joyce and the American Pound). Many of these figures were known to him personally, including Pound, who was a champion of Vorticism of which Lewis was the leading exponent. Other subjects include composer Constant Lambert, arch-bohemian Augustus John and Frederick Rolfe biographer A.J.A. Symons.
James Joyce
Ezra Pound
Edith Sitwell
J.B. Priestley
G.K. Chesterton
Edith Evans
Constant Lambert
Augustus John
A.J.A. Symons
Noël Coward
Further reading
Strange Flowers guide to London: part 2 (Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis)
Places: Miramare, Djuna Barnes | drawings, Berenice Abbott | portraits (James Joyce)
Benevolent deity (A.J.A. Symons)
British Bohème, Concerning the eccentricities of Ronald Firbank, Bohemian twilight, Strange Flowers guide to London: part 3, To the very dregs, Circles: Evan Morgan (Augustus John)
OH! The Noel Coward is so gorgeous! I ahve seen very few of these, so I thank you for bringing them to the Web…once again, an email treat from james!
WOW!
Corker!
So sassy!
(We are all excited by excellent shading and pointy hair.)
These are great!
Ernest Hemingway, on meeting Wyndham Lewis: “Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.”
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