Figures in the Doorway by Edward Pagram
“Figures in the Doorway” by Edward Pagram. (Canvas 1000h x 900w)
Painting:
Subject and Description: Unknown Aboriginal-Australian mother and her four children in the doorway of a tin shack in outback Western Australia. A hauntingly beautiful painting provoking many questions as that of who, where, and why.
Media: Mixed media (likely Oil Paints on Wood)
Signature: Signed upper left
Date: unknown
Dimensions: 1000h x 900w
Notes:
Title was likely given for the purpose of Sale after Pagram's passing.
Date of painting is likely in the 70s or 80s.
"He lives in the world of Daumier, Hogarth and Grosz, so it is natural that his work should often resemble theirs"
"This display of illustrative virtuosity makes one wonder what future the artist will have in a small city like Perth"
- Hillary Merrifield
Art critic 'West Australian' paper
'People are the absorbing interest of Edward Pagram'
- Faces of Perth
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Edward “Ted” James Pagram
b. 1927
d.2007
English-Australia
Left: Pagram 1967
Pagram was appointed to the Perth Technical College as a lecturer in painting and illustration, part of an influx of British-trained artists hired to cope with the expansion of the college, then the Western Australia’s major art school.
He inspired and encouraged many Artist in many media, such as well-known artist Leon Pericles.
He continued to work as a professional artist and illustrator and retired from lecturing in 1997. Pagram developed an interest in sculpture and had an exhibition in 1997.
Edward Pagram passed in 2007.
References:
Anthony Burgess - wikipedia.org
Leftover London - leftoverlondon.wordpress.com
ssMaritime - ssmaritime.com
Pagram Family Tree Australia - pagram.com
International Anthony Burgess Foundation - anthonyburgess.org
Amazon - amazon.co.uk
Bio:
Pagram was an Australian Writer, Artist, and Illustrator originally from London UK. He Wrote/Co-wrote and/or Illustrated at least 9 Books before emigrating to Perth, Western Australia in June 1965, and then at least another 5 Books before 1970 while living in Perth, where he continued working as an artist until his passing in 2007.
Pagram appears to be an extremely underrated Artist when considering the Quality and Quantity of his Work; even more so, when taking into account his other life activities.
He was born in 1927 to a working-class family in Edmonton, North London. He left school at 14 and had no artistic ambitions. At that time, he worked in a factory and on a building site before enlisting in the navy. Eventually, due to a Ministry of Labour grant, he trained as a sign-writer, impressing his teacher so much that he was advised to transfer to drawing and illustration. He never finished his training, but kept working as an artist, saying he had ‘been kept at art by my uselessness at anything else’.
Pagram has written children’s books such as The World of Willy Whiskers (1963), and Higgledy-Piggledy Island (1963).
In 1963, he published A View of London, a book of charcoal drawings inspired by his home city. English writer Colin Wilson (1931 – 2013), who wrote the introduction, was the author of The Outsider and one of the original 1950s ‘angry young men’.
Pagram’s extensive body of work included illustrating for two novels by Anthony Burgess (1917 – 1993): The Eve of St Venus (1964) and A Vision of Battlements (1965). Burgess became friends with Pagram, and often invited him to dinner at his house in Etchingham in the mid-1960s.
He also illustrated a cover for Tender is the Night by American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.
He met and married his wife, Joan Bennett (1927 - 2012) and had three children.
In June 1965, the Pagram family migrated to Perth on the P&0 Lines Ship Orcades.
In 1967, Pagram supplied paintings and drawings for the publication Faces of Perth by architect Paul Ritter (1925 – 2010).
Notable Works:
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Bats with Baby Faces by W. Stanley Moss - Book 1951 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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House of Dolls by Ka-Tsetnik 135633 - Book 1953 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Seeds of Destruction by Derrick Nabarro - Book 1954 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Slaves to the Sea by Hakon Morne - Book 1956 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Nowhere to Go by Donald MacKenzie - Book 1956 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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A Chip on My Shoulder by Eric North - Book 1956 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Nowhere To Go by Donald Mackenzie - Book 1956 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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A Priest in the House by Émile Zola - Book 1957 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Abbe Mouret's Sin by Émile Zola - Book 1957 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Madeleine Ferat - Book 1957 by Émile Zola (Author and/or Illustrator)
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His Excellency by Émile Zola - Book 1958 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Juryman by Donald MacKenzie - Book 1958 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Mr Nobody by Edward Pagram – Book 1960 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Great Tales of Mystery by E. Wallace, E.A. Poe, A.C. Doyle, etc. edited by R.C. Bull - Book 1960 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Great Ghost Stories by Herbert van Thal - Book 1960 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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A View of London by Edward Pagram– Book 1963 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The World of Willy Whiskers by Edward Pagram – Book 1963 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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higgledy-piggledy island by Edward Pagram – Book 1963 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Tony and the Champ by by Robert Martin - Book 1963 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Stories of famous Lost Treasures by Edmund Burke - Book 1964 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Badger's Bend the Animal Hotel by John Rhodes - Book 1964 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Eton Microcosm by Anthony Cheetham - Book 1964 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Crime of Silence by Patricia Carlon - Book 1965 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Unquiet Night by Patricia Carlon - Book 1965 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Nothing in the City by Mark Bence-Jones - Book 1965 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Eve of Saint Venus by Anthony Burgess - Book 1964 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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A Vision of Battlements by Anthony Burgess - Book 1965 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Faces of Perth by Paul Ritter – Book 1967 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Famous Tales of the Fantastic by Herbert van Thal – Book 1968 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Never Had It So Good by Edward Pagram - Book 1968 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Night the Ghost Walked by Dee Sinclair - Book 1969 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Castledare Vigilantes by Dee Sinclair - Book 1969 (Author and/or Illustrator)
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Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Book (Author and/or Illustrator)
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The Soloist (The Musician) – Painting 1991 37 x 50 cm (current location unknown)
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The Red Hat – Painting 1999 Oil and Wash on board, 100 x 91 cm (current location unknown)
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Anthony Burgess – Portrait Painting (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Glum Waiter - Painting (watercolour, unframed 29'' x 20'') (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Enjoying the TV – Painting (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Couple – Painting (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Madame President - Painting Acrylic on board 44 x 35cms (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Figures in the Doorway – Painting (date unknown)
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Aboriginal Stockman - Carved and painted wood figurine (77cm h) (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Poon – Painting Acrylic on board, 110 x 100 cm (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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An Answering Thrust – Painting 59 x 45 cm (date unknown) (current location unknown)
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Neville Teede (Actor) - portrait oil painting (date unknown) Donated to Museum of Performing Arts / His Majesty’s Theatre in 2010
Classic Charcoal Drawings by Pagram for his book A View of London
Classic Drawings by Pagram for the book A Vision of Battlements by Anthony Burgess
Classic Book Covers by Pagram for various Writers.
Some illustrations from various publications
Some illustrations from 'Faces of Perth
Some illustrations from 'Never had it so good'
Some of Pagram's paintings
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