§ WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM C.B.E. (BRITISH 1912-2004)

§ WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM C.B.E. (BRITISH 1912-2004) PORTRAIT OF MRS. ROGERS - SLOOP INN, CIRCA 1945 oil on canvas (76cm x 63cm (29.75in x 24.75in)) Footnote: Note: Extract from Barns-Graham's notebook c.1940-1947 WBG/1/4/1/2 pg 89-90 OCT. 30th [1940] Wrote to Mr [Hubert] Wellington today. I have begun two portraits since writing in this. Margarita Medina. + Mrs Rogers. BOTH 25 x 30. […] MRS ROGERS of “The Sloop”. I am painting in the Sloop [Inn]. This is a job. The light is poor + time limited. 2.45-4 pm. I hope to keep this a decorative composition. In a different colour scheme to my recent paintings - using … Yellow, Alizarine [sp], Crimson, Viridian Green She is a handsome clear-cut woman with most distinctive hair dressing + a charming attractive personality. Tall + angular. With a sensous [sp] mouth yet almost hard face. Something of the Duchess of Windsor style. So she has often been told + I can see it. Mrs Rogers gives me tea after upstairs in a tiny well furnished room overlooking the harbour. A wonderful orange russet thick carpet + when the light is on it – oh!