Whistler's battalion, the 2nd Armoured Welsh Guards, prepared to join the fight. On June 27, they embarked from Gosport, bound for the landing beaches of Arromanches in Normandy.

Executive assistant at Heathcote Health, Michelle Chapman, said work on the mural created a lot of interest among residents and staff. “Each day Melanie was joined by residents who watched as the ...

A great many people saw these sketches, were impressed. Back in New York he hired a loft, erected a number of huge panels, and with no commissions in sight began his mural history. Director Alvin ...

Love letters written by artist Rex Whistler have gone on show at Plas Newydd on Anglesey. The letters were written to his unrequited love, Lady Caroline Paget, the eldest daughter of the sixth ...

Rustic Scene: Villagers Dancing (detail), 1925, Rex Whistler (1905 – 1944), Mural. The Times claimed this large-scale work by the student artist and 'Bright Young Thing' heralded the revival of mural ...

In March 2024, this could be seen in the debate around the exhibition of the Rex Whistler mural, The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats (1927), at the Tate Britain.

Although now considered problematic, at the time, the mural, with its ‘frivolously gallant style’, won the artist a series of private commissions and much social cachet. Whistler — who is the subject ...

The peacock mural in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, as seen in the 2022 exhibition “The Peacock Room Comes to America” National Museum of Asian Art ...

A huge rainbow mural stretching an impressive 70 metres has been unveiled in Glasgow. Two additions to the City Centre Mural Trail have been created to celebrate the forthcoming Pride march and ...

The exhibition, "Rex Whistler: The Artist and His Patrons", will run from Monday, May 27 to Sunday, September 29 and promises to be a voyage through time, shedding light on the relationships between ...

Keith Piper at Tate Britain, where his video, “Viva Voce,” shares a new gallery space with a 1927 mural by Rex Whistler, in London, March 7.