Keith Vaughan - ACE147.3

Alan Ross, Publisher of the Journals, says that Vaughan was naturally "anti-heroic". Soldiers writing letters in the canteen. More wartime subjects. Film of German troops being marched to a prisoner of war camp, being registered, going to the showers. Sketches and drawings including A Barrack Room (1942); A Chat Before Lights Out (c.1942). Bush VO believes that Vaughan’s wartime work shows a sense of community lacking from that of other periods. Vaughan’s words over about life in the army. Various post-war paintings with Vaughan words VO on the peace, the suffering that remains, and his own feelings. Pages from Vaughan’s journal. Drawings. List of exhibitions of Vaughan’s work. Robertson on Vaughan’s "arcadian impulse" to find a link between man and his environment. Landscape. Fields. Photograph of nude boy. Sketch of male nude dated 1958. Life class with male model. Vaughan’s words over on his own qualities as a teacher, and on the difference between life and still life work. Group of Bathers (1951). Various nudes. The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, Three Figures on a Red Ground (1963), and others. Robertson’s VO suggests that the "monumental" aspects, the "Dionysian" qualities, and the "energy" of the paintings are more important than the homoerotic themes in them.