Interior with the Artist's Wife Gold Silver & Bronze Quite a contemporary work for

Quite a contemporary work for the current exhibition but I really admire the painterly quality of it

full of humour

This interior is pure Bloomsbury

Even without a comical figure to point us to a punchline this little study of industrial buildings still manages to exude his humour

Although the world lost Willie in 2018

Interior with the Artist's Wife Gold Silver & Bronze Quite a contemporary work forNot much is recorded of Whittens life other than he was an artist, educator and latterly a potter of some renown. This interior is pure Bloomsbury, a very Grant like brush and the sort of domestic scene that could well have appealed to the great man. Indeed Whitten was a devotee of Duncan Grant and a purchaser of at least one of his works, a rather nice view of pleasure boats on the Thames, from the Towner Art Gallery in the 1950s. The Grant painting