1696

ARTIST

Armfield, Maxwell

1881 – 1972

Painter and decorative artist, especially in tempera, and writer. Born in Ringwood, Hampshire, Armfield was educated at Birmingham School of Art – there is a Birminfham Arts and Crafts flavour in his pictures – then in Paris and Italy. Exhibited extensively, including RA, Fine Art Society, for long a noted dealer in his work, NEAC, Leicester Galleries and abroad. His work is held by the British Museum, provincial and overseas galleries. He illustrated about 20 books and wrote A Manual of Tempera Painting, Tempera Painting Today, An Artist in America and An Artist in Italy. During World War I, with his writer wife Constance Smedley, Armfield attempted to set up a high-flown peoples’ Greenleaf Theatre in his studio, an abortive venture amusingly recalled by Margaret Gardiner in her book A Scatter of Memories. Armfield was a painter of landscape and still life well crafted and full of detail. Lived in Bath, Somerset.

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1696

ARTIST

Armfield, Maxwell

1881 – 1972

Painter and decorative artist, especially in tempera, and writer. Born in Ringwood, Hampshire, Armfield was educated at Birmingham School of Art – there is a Birminfham Arts and Crafts flavour in his pictures – then in Paris and Italy. Exhibited extensively, including RA, Fine Art Society, for long a noted dealer in his work, NEAC, Leicester Galleries and abroad. His work is held by the British Museum, provincial and overseas galleries. He illustrated about 20 books and wrote A Manual of Tempera Painting, Tempera Painting Today, An Artist in America and An Artist in Italy. During World War I, with his writer wife Constance Smedley, Armfield attempted to set up a high-flown peoples’ Greenleaf Theatre in his studio, an abortive venture amusingly recalled by Margaret Gardiner in her book A Scatter of Memories. Armfield was a painter of landscape and still life well crafted and full of detail. Lived in Bath, Somerset.

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Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Still Life, 1914
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Pacific Portrait, c.1915’22
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Profile portrait of a Navaho Indian, circa 1918
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Love in the Mist – study of a Nigella Damascena seed head
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Pot of Delfts Blue
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Datura in Bronze
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Still Life, Grand Canyon, 1917
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Winter Wood
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
As the crackling of thorns under a pot…, circa 1920
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Still life with Pheasant’s Eye Daffodil in a Pewter Vase
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
Madonna of the Desert, circa 1916
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
New Roses, carpet design, 1935
Maxwell Armfield (1881 - 1972)
The Queen of the Darket, Tales from Timbuctoo, circa 1923