Stella Bowen : Art, Love and War
- Periods:
- To England
- An artist's journey
- Inner worlds
- The return to England
- The war years
Period: The war years
![Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]](/sites/default/files/styles/main_content/public/153941/image/347_0051.jpg?itok=PnhNLgN3)
[Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]
painted in London, 1947
oil on canvas 45.3 x 38 cm
not signed, not dated
private collection
Theaden Brocklebank and Keith Hancock commissioned this work from Stella Bowen, to help alleviate her financial hardship. Their support and friendship greatly comforted Bowen in the last years of her life.
It is the last work ever painted by Bowen, who died before she could complete it.
Paintings
- Julia
- The house opposite
- Flight from reason
- Embankment gardens
- Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin
- Bomber crew
- Bombing up a Lancaster for Wing Commander Douglas
- Remains of a flying bomb
- Group Captain Hughie Edwards
- D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
- Flying Officer Frederick Syme, Sunderland captain
- Pilot Officer Ronald Warfield
- A Sunderland crew comes ashore at Pembroke Dock (F. Syme, Ron Warfield, Ron Tyson, Eric Genders, Charlie Martin, Spud Murphy, Bob Meade, Merv Pike, Jock Beattie, Curly Rowland and John Bishop)
- At the Churchill Club, large and small worlds
- RAAF airmen at Mongewell Park Medical Rehabilitation Unit
- Private, Gowrie House
- Repatriated prisoner of war is processed
- Brigadier George Langley
- Reception desk at Gowrie House, Eastbourne
- Theaden in Kensington
- [Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]