After almost 50 years, Isaac Rosenberg is set to return to the University of Leeds, at the recently refurbished and renamed Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery. A retrospective of Rosenberg's work was first held at the University in 1959, organised by Jon Silken, a Gregory Fellow in Poetry, and Maurice de Sausmarez, former Head of Fine Art.
This exhibition is the first to focus on the poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg for more than 15 years. It is also the first to fully explore Rosenberg's art in the context of his Whitechapel peers - among them the painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Jacob Kramer and Clare Winsten (Clara Birnberg) - and writers John Rodker, Joseph Leftwich and Stephen Winsten - as well as associates such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Horace Brodzky. Featuring more than 50 paintings, drawings and works on paper, as well as selected manuscripts, photographs and ephemera, the exhibition follows the recent publication of Dr. Jean Moorcroft Wilson's new biography of Rosenberg (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1 April 2008) and coincides with the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
The exhibition was conceived and curated by Ben Uri Gallery, The London Jewish Museum of Art as part of their ongoing series 'The Whitechapel Boys'
Exhibition dates: 16 June - 25 July 2008
Opening reception: 17 June, 6-8pm
Study Day: 6 July
Friends of University Art and Music talk - 'From Worrier to Warrior: Isaac Rosenberg and The Great War'by Shaun Levin: 23 July, 6pm
Image credit:
Isaac Rosenberg, 'Self-Portrait in a Steel Helmet,' 1916
Black chalk and gouache on brown wrapping paper, 24 x 19.5
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