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A review of the current Joash Woodrow 'Landscapes' exhibition appeared in the Financial Times on Saturday 1st December 2007 - 'Portrait of a Lost Artist' , by Financial Times chief art critic Jackie Wullschlager

"...Joash Woodrow is the genius of late 20th century British art of whom almost no one has heard."

"Woodrows transformation of banality is as lyrical as Chagalls."

"That painterly intensity and high seriousnes links Woodrow to his Jewish contemporaries Kossoff, Auerbach, and Freud; what he now needs is a serious London exhibition to unravel the character and scope of his achievement.

 

 

Joash Woodrow

Landscapes

Financial Times on Saturday 1st December 2007 - 'Portrait of a Lost Artist' , by Jackie Wullschlager

Following on from the highly successful retrospective exhibition at Leeds Metropolitan University this exhibition of 20 paintings is the first to explore the breadth and development of Joash Woodrow's landscape paintings over a fifty year period.

Philip Vann refers to Woodrows work as "Some of the most powerfully and original and expressive works of the last decades". The Times critic John Russell Taylor noted that his 'elected isolation from the art world seems to have done him nothing but good, artistically speaking'. The writer Glyn Hughes declared that 'some of Joash Woodrow's output is likely to stand with the best of English art of the past century'.

The exhibition was accomapanied by a fully illustrated 160 page book on Joash Woodrows 'Landscapes' (ISBN 978 0 9548413 2 4). Published by Leeds Metropolitan University in association with 108 Fine Art the book has been written by Philip Vann (author of 'Face to face: A Dictionary of Artists Self Portraits', and monographs on William Crozier and Dora Holzhandler) and Jackie Wullschlager, chief art critic of the Financial Times and author of several successful books. Her biography of Marc Chagall is due for publication in 2008.

 

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Derelict Windmill, North Leeds (17)
Oil on board, circa 1950-55
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
89 x 58cm
Ben Uri Art Gallery 2005

 

 

Dark City Rooftops (1)
Oil on board, circa 1950-55,
36 x 45.5cm

Parkland with Buildings Beyond (18)
Oil on board, circa 1955
45 x 53cm

 

Bare Trees (31)
Oil on board, circa 1955-60
102 x 92cm
Exhibited Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

 

 

 

Black Path and White Roof (26)
Oil on board, circa 1955-60
62 x 71cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Manchester Art Gallery 2005
Royal College of Art 2005

 

Yellow Building with Blue Door
and Windows
Oil on hessian, circa 1960
96 x 68cm

 

City Building
Oil on board, circa 1955-60
61 x 44.3cm

 

 

 

Black Pony in a Landscape
Oil on board, circa 1960-65
77 x 99cm

 

Wild Flower Study II
Oil on board, circa 1960-65
121 x 182cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

   

Blue Sky and Clouds Through Trees
Oil on board, circa 1960-65
122 x 184cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005

 

 

 

Four Black Trees...
Oil on board, circa 1965
92 x 91cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005

White Square in a Landscape (13)
Oil on board, circa 1965-70
91.5 x 99cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005

 

   

Fenced Allotment Building
Oil on board, circa 1965-70
124 x 122cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005

 

 

 

Bird in a Tree
Oil on board, circa 1965-70
77 x 121cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005

 

 

Allotment Buildings with Large Trees
Oil on board, circa 1975-80
122 x 144cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

   

Row of Allotment Buildings (20)
Oil on board, circa 1960-65
123 x 151cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005

 

 

 

White City Building
Oil on board, circa 1975
77 x 99cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005,

Building with Awning
Oil on board, circa 1970-75
76 x 99cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005

   

Dark Green Trees in Allotment Landscape
Oil on board, circa 1980-85
100 x 123cm

 

 

 

 

Spring Blossom in the Allotments (5)
Oil on board, circa 1985
92 x 114cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

Black Post
Oil on board, circa 1965-70
77 x 99cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007
SOLD

   

White Fence and Small Building (39)
Oil on board, circa 1975-80
91.5 x 122cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

 

 

 

Four Trees,White Fence and Industrial Buildings
Oil on board, circa 1975-80
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2005,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007
SOLD

 

Industrial Landscape with Young Trees..
Oil on board, circa 1975-80
100 x 122.5cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005,

   

Allotment Flowers (21)
Oil on board, circa 1980
92 x 91cm
Exhibited Royal College of Art 2005

 

 

 

Violet Flowers in a Landscape
Oil on board, circa 1980
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2005,
Royal College of Art 2005

 

White Picket Fences with Trees...(11)
Oil on board, circa 1985-90
123 x 123cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

   

White Fences and Trees (44)
Oil on board, circa 1980-85
122 x 121cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

 

 

White Fences with Red-Framed Building (2)
Oil on board, circa 1980-85
122 x 122cm
Exhibited Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

Landscape with Orange Dot(14)
Oil on board, circa 1990
90 x 80cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

 

 

Allotment Trees and White Sheds(37)
Oil on board, circa 1980-85
100 x 121.5cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007

 

 

Silver Landscape with Autumnal Trees
Oil on board, circa 1990-95
145 x 122cm
Exhibited Leeds City Art Gallery, 2004,
Royal College of Art 2005,
Leeds Metropolitan University 2007
SOLD

 

Overgrown Structure, Trees & Clouds (12)
Oil on board, circa 1985
121 x 100cm

   

Trees before Yellow Buildings (4)
Oil on board, circa 1955
58 x 44cm
SOLD

White House through Dark Trees(6)
Oil on board, circa 1950-55. 52 x 41.5cm
SOLD

 

 

Allotment in Autumn (3)
Oil on board, circa 1990.
123 x 123cm

 

   

Autumnal Trees (42)
Oil on board, circa 1985-90
121 x 100cm

 

 

Autumn Trees (8)
Oil on board, circa 1980-85
122 x 145cm

Overgrown Building (41)
Oil on board, circa 1970-75
130 160cm

   

White Gate with Autumnal Trtees (40)
Oil on board, circa 1980-85
92 x 91cm

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 
     
     
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