Rex whistler

Cecil Beaton reclining

Andrew Ginger, who with his company Beaudesert, curated the highly acclaimed Cecil Beaton exhibition at the Salisbury Museum this summer (which I very much enjoyed), recently collaborated with Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler to create Beaton at Brook Street - a display of key exhibits from the acclaimed summer show. Recreations of rooms from Beaton's London and Wiltshire homes and a collection of rare and unseen photographs, artworks and possessions sat alongside each other to present a unique…

Exhibition brings together paintings, letters, designs and photographs from the National Trust’s Whistler archive, the family archive at Salisbury Museum and the Welsh Guards

Images from the exhibition at the Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum in Salisbury

Images from the exhibition at the Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum in Salisbury

Rex Whistler Self Portrait, 1933 Photo: Tate museum One of the great, if not greatest, decorative painters of the 20th century was Reginald John 'Rex' Whistler, 1905 to 1944. Perhaps better described as a muralist in the context of this post of The Devoted Classicist, he also painted portraits and landscapes, illustrated books, and designed theatre sets. Rex Whistler in his Fitzroy Street Studio, 1932. Howard Coster, photographer. Photo: Private Collection, Rex Whistler Estate. Born in…

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The entrancing work and tragic end of British artist Rex Whistler is explored in a new exhibit and book

​This astonishing picture by Rex Whistler – Ulysses’s Farewell to Penelope – was for decades referred to with the tag ‘whereabouts unknown’. When my husband, Hugh Cecil, and I wrote our 2012 biography of the artist, we could not include it as we had no idea as to its location. It had disappeared into private ownership.