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Artworks
This introductory essay captures and interprets the essence of the Refiguring the 50s exhibition, that brought together for the first time the work of five powerful, individual, figurative painters working in Britain in the 1950s: Joan Eardley (1921-1963), Sheila Fell (1931-1979), Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959), Josef Herman (1911-2000) and L S Lowry (1887-1976). Spanning 1945-64, it showcased their range, inventiveness and often widely differing approaches to figuration and practice in the pivotal postwar period.