Louis Shadwick

• PhD Candidate at The Courtauld Institute of Art
• PhD Student at Courtauld Institute of Art

This paper is an in-depth examination of Lucian Freud's lifelong series of self-portraits through a range of detailed examples, which together illustrate and argue a case for Freud's concept of 'truth' as being his overriding creative agenda. This notion of 'truth', however, is presented as opposed to traditional ideas of realism and mimesis, inste...

Despite the vast amount of writing on Edward Hopper, few accounts have paid specific attention to his use of the window as a motif within his work. Several writers have noted its significance, yet subsequently failed to delve much deeper into its historical and symbolic connotations. Indeed, there has been little attempt to contextualise this motif...

Hopper’s earliest surviving oils have long been valued as his first original works, and a number have been interpreted as scenes near his childhood home in Nyack, New York. The identification of one, ‘Old ice pond at Nyack’, as a copy of ‘A winter sunset’ by the Tonalist painter Bruce Crane has revealed that most if not all of these works are copie...