EXHIBITIONS
Exhibition Of Paintings by Doreen Penson and Clifford Hall
Clifford Hall's second exhibition at the St Martin's Gallery, 33, St Martins Court, Charring Cross Road, London WC2 was a joint exhibition with Doreen Penson held during the month of June 1930.
Details:
The exhibition included 20 paintings by Clifford Hall.
Paintings
- The Square, Isleworth ......................15 guineas
- A Street near Paris ...........................10 "
- Montmartre .......................................
- A Street in Môret ...............................10 "
- The Promenade, Moulin Rouge ....... 10 "
- Les Folies Bergère ............................10 "
- Le Café du Dôme ............................... 7 "
- Café Interior ....................................... 2 "
- In the Limelight ................................... 3 "
- Coombe Hill ....................................... 5 "
- Sanger's Caravans ........................... 10 "
- The Red Caravans ....................... ... 10 "
- The Mill, Môret .................................... 7 "
- A Stormy Sky ..................................... 2 "
- Strand on the Green .......................... 2 "
- The Wood .......................................... 2. "
- House at Isleworth .............................. 2 "
- Brentford ............................................. 2 ".
- Ham Fields ......................................... 2 "
- The Charwoman ............................... 18 "
There were 39 paintings (8 oils and 31 watercolours) by Doreen Penson, ranging in price from 3 to 15 guineas. We have very little information about the identity of this artist. There is no evidence available that she and Clifford Hall were friends. There is an artist called Marjorie Doreen Penson, several of whose works have come up at auction in recent years, who is described as Irish but without any other info - not even DoB or DoD info. There was a Marjorie Doreen Crawford (1902 -1971) who was born in Ireland and married a man called John Hubert Penson in London in 1929. We have also found a few references online to an English lady called Dorreen Penson working as an art teacher in the USA.
We also found the following quote about "Miss Doreen Penson" from a review of this exhibition which appeared in the Times newspaper, on a website dedicated to the English painter William Roberts (1895 - 1980).
St. Martin’s Gallery
12 June 1930
It is no disparagement of the individual art of Miss Doreen Penson, whose paintings in oil and water-colour are now being shown at St. Martin’s Gallery, 33, St. Martin’s-court, to say that “Workmen Resting” … , which is the most striking of her oils, recalls the work of Mr. William Roberts. The careful grouping, extended even to the ladder in the background, and the stylized figures of the men make it the strongest of her pictures …
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