The programme will include a major exhibition of photographs by post-war photographer, Roger Mayne, alongside displays of drawings and small-scale models by Henry Moore, and avant-garde works by Vanessa Bell.
(Jo) and Justin Henderson, with a friend, Bethnal Green 1953
© Roger Mayne Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library
The Courtauld Gallery has confirmed that its summer season of displays will include its first ever photography exhibition Roger Mayne: Youth (14 June – 1 September 2024).
This exhibition will examine the importance of his work through his black and white images of young people, bringing together the works of the 1950s and early 1960s for which he is famous, alongside lesser-known images of his own children. Highlights of the exhibition will include: Children in a Bombed Building, Bermondsey, London (1954) and one of his most famous images, A Girl Jiving in Southam Street (Eileen Sheekey), London (1957). It has been curated by Jane Alison in close collaboration with Mayne’s daughter, Katkin Tremayne.
Meanwhile, before this exhibition will be Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art (25 May – 6 October 2024) which will celebrate the gallery’s collection of Bell’s work. Comprising 3 paintings, 1 woodcut and 8 works on paper, it will include her masterpiece A Conversation (1913-1916), as well as the bold, abstract textile designs she produced for the Omega Workshops, led by influential artist and critic Roger Fry in London, which aimed to abolish the boundaries between the fine and decorative arts and bring the arts into everyday life.
Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall (8 June – 22 September 2024) will focus on Henry Moore’s (1898 – 1986) celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of the wall, during and immediately after World War II.
For more information visit: https://courtauld.ac.uk/