Charles Mahoney An Earthly Paradise

Charles Mahoney was a key figure of a golden generation of artists who attended the Royal College of Art in the early 1920s. Amongst his (better known) contemporaries were Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Henry Moore, Enid Marx, and Barnett Freedman. In the Twenty First century interest in these artists has grown apace and museum exhibitions, especially evolving around Ravilious and Bawden, and publications have proliferated. When in 1928 Ravilious, Bawden and Mahoney were commissioned by Lord Duveen to paint murals for Morley college, (Lambeth, London), Mahoney was given, (literally) the centre stage. Had the celebrated mural cycle survived (it was destroyed in WW2), Mahoney might today be better known. Mahoney went on to do remarkable mural cycles at Brockley School, (Hilly Fields, London) in the early 1930s, and Campion Hall, (Oxford), in the early 1940s (after Stanley Spencer was taken off the job for suggesting that he could model the Virgin on one of his mistresses). Mahoney’s painting, The Garden (16, 250), was also selected as one of the ‘Sixty paintings for 51’, the landmark Festival of Britain paintings exhibition. The exhibition’s oldest contributor was L.S. Lowry, and the youngest, Lucien Freud. Today Mahoney is mostly remembered as a teacher, serving from 1928 to 1953 at the Royal College of Art, from 1954 to 1963 at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, and from 1961 until his death in 1968, at the Royal Academy Schools.

Works Featured in this catalogue

On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for the altar wall, Annunciation in an Allotment, c.1942
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The beach at Pevensey, circa 1958
£3,000
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Artist’s Hand with Painted Teasel
£9,750
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Perspective drawing, circa 1925
£1,400
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Muses; Study for Self-portrait of the Artist at Work. 1950’s
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Bathsheba seated with two figures in attendance
£4,800
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Children sleeping – illustration to a fable, mid 1920’s
£9,750
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Artist picking Sunflowers
£975
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Distant view of Cotswolds Farm cottage, late 1920s
£5,750
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for a fabric design, circa 1940
£1,875
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Spring
£2,450
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of a grumpy cherub, for Campion Hall, early 1940’s
£1,250
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The hearth at Oak Cottage, circua 1938
£1,200
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Willow Grove, Great Bardfield, Spring 1933
£2,950
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, circa 1935
£3,750
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Room at the Queens Hotel, Ambleside, circa 1940
£1,950
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Fortune and the Boy at the Well, mural at Brockley County School, 1933
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Washing Hanging to Dry
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Campion Hall Fathers gathered around Mary’s bed, c. 1942
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
The Stanhope Street Group, 1926
Private
Bernard Dunstan (1920 - 2017)
Interior: The Byam Shaw School
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Joy and Sorrow, mural at Brockley County School, 1933
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Sunflowers
£1,475
Donald Chrisholm Towner (1903 - 1985)
Portrait of Charles Mahoney (1903-1968), 1926
£9,750
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Attendant angel, floating, full size cartoon for The Lady Chapel at Campion Hall, circa 1941
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Observation Post – Wrotham Hill, circa 1940
Forthcoming
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Wise and Foolish Virgins, circa 1928
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Gas Mask Drill (oval with sketch to top right), 1939
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Self-portrait, Ambleside, 1941
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Sunflowers at Oak Cottage
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
View of St Mary’s Lane from Oak Cottage, circa 1938
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Still life with Snakes and Ladders board
£8,500
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Street scene with children wearing gas masks, circa 1940
Forthcoming
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of Oak Cottage, circa 1940
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Kitchen at Oak Cottage, circa 1937
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Companulas in Enamel Jug
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for The Visitation, c. 1942
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Illustration to a Fable
£1,975
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Allotment, Wrotham, late 1930’s
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Bathsheba, late 1940’s
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Giant Sunflowers in Oak Cottage Garden
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for The Birth of the Virgin, c. 1942
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, c.1935
£1,600
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Wheelbarrow and basket
£1,800
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of a sunflower head, mid 1930’s
£975
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Allotments Beside White Hill Pumping Station, Wrotham, c.1938
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Gourd and Morning Glory, circa 1950
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for Yellow Ox-eye Daisies, mid 1950s
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Compositional study for The pleasures of Life at Morley College, 1928-30
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Allegory of Peony, c.1930
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Greenhouse Interior, 1930’s
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Giant Sunflower Head
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Birthday Party, circa 1957
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Still Life with Celery on a blue and white dish
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The original full size cartoon for The Garden, 1950
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Portrait of Geoffrey Rhoades, 1930
£14,750
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of Roses
£1,375
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Galaxy of Sunflowers, 1967
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
A recital, 1928
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Woodburner with Cosmos in a vase
£9,500
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Adam and Eve Dancing, 1934
£1,275
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study for The Four Winds of Hilly Fields, ceiling design for Brockley County School, c. 1932-36
£1,650
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Self-portrait, late 1950’s
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Chicken Run, 1929
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Seated Nude, circa 1928
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Tuscany Roses
£3,800
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Orange box (TRYPTICH)
£3,000
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
First design for the Thomas More Altar, Cheyne Row, London, mid 1930s
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
sheet of flower studies with Sunflowers
£2,750
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Oak Cottage from back garden
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Fleeing figures, mid 1920’s
Private
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Ambleside, View from the Library Roof, circa 1942
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Studies for watering can, mid 1930’s
£2,500
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of Woman Playing Guitar, 1928
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Studies of Helianthus ‘Miss Mellish’
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Still Life: anemones and fruit
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Design for the wall above the altar at Campion Hall, Two Angels Overlooking a Garden
£9,500
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Study of a Sunflower, late 1940s
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Compositional study for The Pleasures of Life, c.1927
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Christmas tree in pot, 1956
Private
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Evening, Oak Cottage
Sold
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Adoration of the Shepherds, (Winter), c.1942
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
Study for Kensington Park, 1923
£2,500
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Artist and his Muses, c 1961
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Autumn, 1951
Sold
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Drawing of Cyclamen neapolitanum and Cyclamen Coüm for Gardeners’ Choice, 1937
On Loan
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Self-Portrait