Mrs. John Virtue This is Me

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1. 1. www.nationalgallery.co.uk

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   Published on: 6/24/2008   Last Visited: 6/24/2008

   John Virtue : London Paintings Exhibition Catalogue
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   John Virtue : London Paintings Exhibition Catalogue£12.95 Add to basket > John Virtue, the National Gallery's sixth Associate Artist, is a painter whose work treads a fine line between abstraction and figuration.
   
   Although his paintings have affinities with oriental brush-painting and American abstract expressionism, he also has a deep-rooted relationship with the European landscape tradition.
   
   Above all, his works relate closely to the great English, Dutch and Flemish landscape painters such as Turner, Constable, Koninck and Rubens which are magnificently represented in the Gallery's permanent collection.
   
   During his time working in the Gallery Virtue has made a series of large-scale paintings that represent the London cityscape.Executed in black and white, they are monumental, epic works.
   
   London has never before been treated by a painter on such an ambitious scale.
   
   Published to accompany the exhibitions John Virtue: London Paintings at The National Gallery, London, from 9 March to 5 June 2005 and John Virtue: London Drawings at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London, from 10 March to 5 June 2005.

2. 2. Yale Press Log: Art

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   Published on: 10/21/2006   Last Visited: 7/30/2007

   The works so acclaimed are a series of monumental black-and-white paintings of the London cityscape by John Virtue (b. 1947), former Associate Artist of the National Gallery, London (2003-2005).These paintings, along with several dozen drawings of London that served as their inspiration, will be on display beginning today at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, as part of the exhibition London: John Virtue.
   
   "I have no interest in recording a rhetorical history of London; really I'm interested in making exciting abstractions from what I perceive," Virtue says about the London series.The epic paintings are the result of Virtue's meticulous observation of the London cityscape.Every weekday morning for two years, regardless of the weather, Virtue would draw what he saw from three different locales in London--a spot on the South Bank of the Thames, the roof of Somerset House, and the roof of the National Gallery--before entering his studio in the basement of the National Gallery, where he used his drawings as the raw material for his canvases.
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   The catalog to the exhibition, John Virtue: London Paintings, is distributed by Yale University Press.

3. 3. Accrington Hall Of Fame - Accrington Web

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   Published on: 2/23/2008   Last Visited: 2/23/2008

   JOHN VIRTUE, Accrington born lad