In 1957, when asked by Tate to explain the meaning of his painting Allegory (1924), Thomas Monnington (1902-1976) replied that it was ‘not overtly to do with the Garden of Eden’ , but that it ‘was an attempt to express in pictorial form my attitude to life – almost my faith’. Monnington’s attitude was typical of his generation. Although religion was not a defining ingredient of his art, the search for meaning in a wider spiritual context, was. This online exhibition includes work by five women and eight men: Sir Thomas Monnington and Winifred Knights, Clare Leighton, Maragret Gere, Hubert Arthur Finney and Robert Austin …