Naked Cornish Boys by Royal Arrangement!
(Above painting: August Blue (Tate Gallery) was bought for the nation in 1894)
The Royal Cornwall Museum (Truro) has announced an Exhibition retrospective of Henry Scott Tuke.
"Catching the Light" 10th May -12 July 2008
The Exhibition will feature major loans from national archive material in celebration of one of Britain's most significant artists. Henry Scott Tuke who like to paint beautiful young men naked in Cornwall. This exhibition charts Tuke's career as a painter from his school days through to his fateful trip to the West Indies.
A cross-section of his major themes is included: from portraiture to the male nude boys outdoors; domestic interiors to sailors; yachts racing in Falmouth to Cornish fishermen sorting their catch.
Royal Cornwall Museum
River Street, Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom, TR1 2SJ
Tel:- 01872 272205
Email: enquiries@royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
There is of course the question whether the deeply homophobic Cornwall police will try to intervean and stop the exhibition of Tuke's work given their recent history of vigerous opposition to homoerotic Art forms in Cornwall.
See videos.
Another video below featuring male figurative sculptures & paintings, including some of those the Cornwall police have attempted to destroy & prevent by Cornwall artist, Malcolm Lidbury.
...and more paintings Cornwall police attempted to prosecute a contemporary Cornwall Artist.
There are further exhibitions this year celebrating Tuke's work, details to follow in the pinkpasty blogspot.
Friday, 7 March 2008
Naked Cornish Boys by Royal Arrangement!
