Early Morning, Tower Bridge Scottish Show 2022 deeply retro in a 70s

deeply retro in a 70s Bond girl way

This is not from that source but nevertheless is a fine example of Willie’s painting

It won’t go unnoticed that I’ve slipped in a few Swedish painters this year

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

the latter commissioning her to paint his wife and daughters

Early Morning, Tower Bridge Scottish Show 2022 deeply retro in a 70sWhen the Thames was a working river, the Pool of London was a popular subject for painters. London Docks were the heart of the capital pumping goods and people to and from the Empire and the view of that stretch of the river leading up to Tower Bridge would have been familiar to all Londoners. This is a classic view of The Pool at a time when its usefulness had started to terminally wane. Painted in the mid 1950s, barely a decade later the shipping