J.G.P. Delaney
Lund Humphries
Hardback
228
1999
Glyn Philpot (1884?1937) was a portrait figure and still-life painter and a sculptor. One of the most financially successful portrait painters of his generation he achieved early prominence in both Britain and America. Philpot was a senior public figure who embodied deep personal contradictions. In 1933 at the age of 49 he submitted The Great Pan to the Royal Academy. The painting made explicit what had for so long been a coded language within homosexual writing and art and the artist suffered the ignominy of public rejection.
Lund Humphries
Hardback
228
1999
Glyn Philpot (1884?1937) was a portrait figure and still-life painter and a sculptor. One of the most financially successful portrait painters of his generation he achieved early prominence in both Britain and America. Philpot was a senior public figure who embodied deep personal contradictions. In 1933 at the age of 49 he submitted The Great Pan to the Royal Academy. The painting made explicit what had for so long been a coded language within homosexual writing and art and the artist suffered the ignominy of public rejection.