Augustus John
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Gertz, Elmer: AJ to 324
Gill, Eric: on the sheep and the goats 329; AJ’s opinions on his work 343, 660 (n. 41); discussions with AJ at Ditchling 356; helps form Artists’ International Association 560; mentioned 350
Augustus John to 341
Gilman, Harold 330, 335, 336, 343, 348, 427
Ginner, Charles 343, 348, 417, 427; ‘The Café Royal’ 120
Giotto 312
Glenavy, Beatrice, Lady 422
Gogarty, Oliver St John: first meeting with AJ 390–1; pronounces AJ’s ears as Seat of his Melancholy 391; their lifelong infuriating friendship 391; AJ’s portraits 391, 410; AJ steers his Rolls-Royce 447; poem on AJ’s driving 448–9; warns Dunsany not to give AJ alcohol 485; invites AJ to assist at opening of hotel 509; arranges for ‘serious’ portrait of Yeats 509, 510; goes to USA 590; mentioned 424; ‘To Augustus John’ 391–2
Augustus John to 434, 435, 506
Gogh, Vincent van 259, 327, 340, 341, 344, 345, 476, 511, 574
Goodyear, Conger 489, 492, 508; AJ to 558, 561, 563
Goodyear, Mrs: sits to AJ 489
Gore, Spencer: remembers AJ at Slade 44; exhibits at Allied Artists’ Association 330; recommended by AJ to Quinn 343; with Camden Town Group 335, 348; frescoes Cave of the Golden Calf 417; mentioned 136, 336
Gough, Sylvia 415–16
Goupil Gallery, London 240, 396
Goward, Mr (schoolteacher) 19, 20
Goya, Francisco de 54–5, 145, 484
Grafton Gallery 478; ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (1910) 326, 327–9, 330, 331, 334, 335, 336, 340, 341–2; ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’ (1912) xix, 327, 328, 331, 335, 336, 348, 349, 350–1
Graham, Constance 562
Graham, Harry: ‘Augustus John’ 610–12
Graham, Robert Cunninghame 121
Grainger, Percy 282
Gramont, Duchess of 441, 455
Gramophone 383fn
Granero (matador) 483
Grant, Duncan: studying in Paris 248; sickened by Lambs 249, 250; stimulated by Lady Ottoline 262; sees Gwen John 436; associated with Euston Road artists 517; mentioned 346
Maynard Keynes to 286
Lytton Strachey to 249
Graves, Robert 510
Gray, Cecil 448, 450, 562, 566; AJ to 504
Gray, Ronald: Tonks to 40
Gray, Stuart 427 and fn.
Greaves, Walter 343
Greco, El 342, 484–5
Green, Lucy 142, 144
Greenhill School, Tenby 19–20, 26, 29
Gregory, Anne 410
Gregory, Lady Augusta: meets AJ 145; invites him to Coole Park 242; discusses literary matters with Yeats 243; reactions to AJ etching of Yeats 244, 245; influence on AJ 280; invites AJ to Coole again 359; uses Shaw as bait to lure AJ 410, 411; mentioned 393
John Quinn to 299–300
W. B. Yeats to 244, 509
Gregory, Richard 410
Gregory, Robert 242–3, 246, 410, 411
Augustus John to 48, 243
William Orpen to 51
Grigson, Geoffrey 517, 569; Wyndham Lewis to 517
Griller Quartet 472
Groome, Francis Hindes: Kriegspiel 101
Grosvenor Gallery, London 478
Grunfeld, Frederick V.: Rodin… 217
Guardian 568
Guevara, Alvaro (‘Chile’) 343, 381, 500
Guiche, Duchesse de 442
Guilbert, Yvette 70
Gumfreston Church, nr Tenby 23, 554
Guys, Constantin 345
gypsies: AJ warned against by father 4; he feels kinship with 26, 27, 48, 56; AJ, McEvoy and Evans meet up with tinkers in Wales 41; and John Sampson 100–3; AJ welcomed as fellow vagrant 104; AJ etchings of 108, 109; AJ spends more time with 111–12; and AJ’s creation of Dorelia 127; at Matching Green 138; at Ste-Honorine 215, 217, 218; AJ’s urge to be closer to 280, 281–2; Fabian de Castro 280–1; at Cherbourg 281; plot to expel from Europe 281; send AJ amputated ear 282; AJ protests against their exclusion from Epsom racecourse 284; Matthew Wood and bloody combat in Wales 289–91; frighten Hugh Lane out of wits 305; Marseilles teeming with 309–11; grand reunion in Milan 312–13; at Villa Ste-Anne 319; evening in Essex 358; Dorothy Brett recalls 421; AJ no longer paints 453; AJ petitions MPs on their behalf 560; look on AJ as brother and champion; see also Sampson, John: Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
Gypsy Lore Society xix, xxvi, xxix, 283, 284, 311fn, 319, 549, 56l
Haddon, Trevor: AJ to 239
Haggard, Henry Rider 385
Hake, Egmont 201
Hale, Kathleen 368–9, 445–6, 449, 453; A Slender Reputation 530
Hall, Edna Clarke (née Waugh): a Slade School ‘genius’ 50, 54, 61; on Tonks and AJ 53–4; friendship with Ida John 62, 65, 118; marriage and effect on artistic life 50, 51, 139–40; AJ shatters peace at party 67; attends life-drawing classes at Chelsea Art School 139, 140; devasted by Ida’s death 276; ill at ease with Dorelia 276; poses for ‘Girl on the Cliff’ and kissed by AJ 276–7; AJ’s children farmed out with 271, 278; mentioned 86, 552
Hall, Very Reverend George 283
Hall, William Clarke 50, 51, 62, 139–40, 276; Edna Clarke Hall to 65
Hamand, Ronald xxiv, xxx
Hamilton, Duchess of 407
Hamnett, Nina: ‘the Sybil of Soho’ 419; on AJ 206
Augustus John to 58
Hardy, Florence 464–5
Hardy, Thomas: his poems ‘wonderful things’ 103; meeting with AJ 464; AJ’s portrait 208, 464–5
Harris, Frank: first meeting with AJ 321; appearance 321; on AJ and his work 119, 299, 322; invites AJ to Nice 307, 322–3, 324, 337; Contemporary Portraits 323–4; The Man Shakespeare 321, 322; ‘The Miracle of the Stigmata’ 322; Undream’d of Shores 323
Harris, Nellie 322–3, 324
Harrison, Jane: AJ’s portrait 285, 286
Hart, Miss (ex-pupil of AJ) 196
Hart-Davis, John 416
Hart-Davis, Sybil 416
Hastings, Sussex: Knewstub in 480, 481
Hatch, Ethel 32, 43, 53
Haverfordwest, Wales 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Victoria Place 3–4, 5, 6, 11
Hawthorne, Eileen 457, 487
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 97
Hay, Sylvia: AJ to 580
Hayward, Alfred 36; AJ to 596
Hayward, Lawrence 568
Head, Edward J., R.A. 30
Heald (AJ’s friend) 450
Hearst, Randolph 490
Heine, Heinrich: Florentine Nights 69
Hell, Dr Johann 469fn
Henriques, Fiore de (sculptress) 592
Herbert, A. P. 527fn
Herbert, Kathleen see Everett, Katherine
Herbert, Mary 428
Herkomer, Herbert von: portrait of Admiral Lord Fisher 407
Hext, Mr and Mrs 183, 184–5
Hicks, Zoë (AJ’s daughter): birth 459–60; Eve Fleming tries to adopt 460–1; relationship with AJ 461–2, 522; and AJ’s last midnight expedition 598–9
Hiles, Barbara see Bagenal, Barbara
Hillier, Bevis: The Early Years of the New English Art Club 91 (quoted)
Hinton, Margaret: Ida John to 167, 168
Hinton, James 637 (n. 66)
Hodgson, Ralph: ‘Time, You Old Gipsy Man’ 282
Holbrooke, Joseph 395, 397, 400
Holden, Inez: AJ to 535
Hone, Nathaniel 299
Hone, Joe 391, 453; AJ’s portrait 208
Augustus John to 585, 593
Hone, Vera 391
Hope-Johnstone, John: engaged as tutor 383–5; sets off for Outer Mongolia 385; arrested as spy 414; offers himself as father to Brownsword’s baby 414–15; dances back from war 451; arrives at Mallord Street with Chiquita 458; AJ’s portraits 201, 208
Augustus John to 396, 398, 399
Hope-Nicholson, Felix: AJ to 575
Hopkinson, Tom 569
Horizon (review) 567
Horniman, Annie 244
Housman, A. E. 653 (n. 58)
Howard, ‘Dummer’ 280, 450
Hudson, Nan: Walter Sickert to 407
Hudson, W. H. 121; The Purple Land 102–3
Hugh, Ferdinand G. 131fn
Hughes, Frances xx
Hughes, Richard xx, 373–4, 511, 531, 532, 550, 600
Hughes, William 441
Hulse, Lady: Dorelia McNeill to 548
Hulton, Edward 462–3
Humphries, Ruth 421
Huneker, James G. 334; Quinn to 379; Promenades of an Impressionist 338
Hunt, William Holman 222
Huxley, Aldous 262, 372–3fn, 591; Point Counter Point 674 (n. 1)
Huysmans, Joris Karl 145, 207
Hyde, Montgomery 449–50, 560fn
Idler, The 128, 395
Illustrated London News 209, 590
Imperial War Museum 442
Independent Society of Artists (New York) 491
Innes, James Dickson: first meeting with AJ 352; in France with Fothergill 352, 353; contracts tuberculosis 352; visits Paris with Matthew Smith 352; falls in love with Euphemia Lamb 352; ‘blood brotherhood’ with AJ 353; AJ recommends landscapes to Quinn 353–4; in Wales with AJ 354–5; buries letters from Euphemia 354; infuriated by arrival of Lipczinski and wife 361; appears on Aran 393; returns to Wales with AJ 393; jealous of Derwent Lees 394; ‘very much of a Welshman’ 347; dejected in Marseilles 395; seriously ill 396; goes to Tenerife with Trelawney Reed 400; death 401; mentioned xxv, 359, 395, 397
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and ’Gravers 258, 478
Ireland, AJ in: with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 242–6, 410–11; with Gogarty 390–1, 447; with Macnamara 392–3; in wartime 405–6; at the Taillteann Games 485; in the 1930s 509–11, 512
Ireland, John 478
Ireland, Lily (model) 395
Ischia, island of 487
Italy: Ida John studies in 63–4; Symons goes mad in 297; AJ travels through (1910) 311–13, (1925) 486–7, (1933) 512–13; strike over Lord Leverhulme portrait 468
Ivor-Jones, Sheila Nansi 534
Jackson, Derek (Poppet’s husband) 537
Jackson, Herbert 96, 106
James, Henry 120, 264
James, M. R. 655 (n. 90)
Japan, Emperor of 445
Japp, Darsie: AJ to 26
Jenkins, A. D. Fraser xxv, 44, 56
‘Jeunes, Les’ 207
John, Alfred (AJ’s uncle) 9, 11
John, Augusta (née Smith) (AJ’s mother): birth 10; artistic talent 10; marries Edwin John 10; arrival in Tenby 3; birth of her children 3, 4, 5; encourages children to draw 10; health deteriorates 5; death 7, 11, 23; legacy 12, 30
John, Augustus (see also Chronology and Itinerary, pp. 615–22)
1878–94
birth 3; loves walks with father 4–5; corrupted by circus 6; shyness 6–7; friendship with servants 7; encouraged to draw by mother 10; utters only grunts 13; tests Thornton’s endurance 14; trails girls across sandhills 15; life passes in fantasy 15; love of the outdoors and Tenby harbour 15–16; roams further afield 17; ‘big landmark’ of early puberty 59–60; hero-worship of Robert Prust 17; schooling 19–21, 29; partially deafened by blows to the ears 19, 20; devastated by Allen Evans 21–2; relationship with father 22–3, 25–6, 27, 28; worried by Gwen’s (q.v.) self-neglect 25; undermines her confidence 28–9; desperate to leave Tenby 29–30; decides to study art 30–1
1894–99
early days at Slade 32–3, 34, 35–7; friendship with McEvoy and Evans (qq.v.) 37–8; taught by Wilson Steer 38–9; loyalty to Tonks 40; successful at Slade 40; diving accident at Giltar Point 41–2; convalesces 42–3; tentative declaration of love 43, 60–1; is transformed on return to Slade 43–6; with Gwen in London 47–9; finds the girls at Slade ‘supreme’ 49–50, 51; and Whistler’s appearance in the Life Class 56–7; friendship with Orpen (q.v) 51–2; continued successes at the Slade 53–5; becomes involved with Ida (q.v.) 61, 64–5, 67; disliked by Ada Nettleship (q.v.) 65, 66; takes Charlotte St studio 68; with Evans and McEvoy in Amsterdam 40, 55, 67–8; claustrophobia in Tenby 55–6; leaves Slade in glory 56
1899–1902
meets Whistler in Paris 72–3; with Gwen at Swanage 74; work accepted by the New English Art Club (q.v.) 51; commissions and absent husbands 69–70; campaigns against Richmond’s St Paul’s mosaics 74–5; first one-man show 75; with Rothenstein and Conder (qq.v.) at Vattetot-sur-Mer 75–7; meets Wilde in Paris 78; impressed by Daumier and Puvis de Chavannes 78–9; exhibits at the NEAC 93–4; ‘saturnalias’ in London 79–81; breaks with Ida 82; at Swanage with Conder 82–3; affair with ‘a superb woman of Vienna’ 83–4; on Mafeking Night 84–5; with the Rothensteins and Salaman at Le Puy 85–8; dislikes Orpen’s portrait 44; marriage 88–90; in Liverpool 96–8; friendship with the Dowdalls 98–9, and Sampson (qq.v.) 100, 101–4; excitement over the gypsies 104, and Ida’s pregnancy 105, 106; takes up etching 107–9; another accident 109–10; spends more time with the gypsies 111–12; and the birth of his son 112–13, 114; leaves the Art School 114; happy to be back in London 116
1902–5
at Jack Nettleship’s deathbed 118; drinking heavily 118; Café Royal a home from home 119–21; meets Yeats and Wyndham Lewis (qq.v.) 121; at Caspar’s birth 123; attaches himself to Will Rothenstein 123–4; portrait of Ida voted Picture of the Year at the NEAC 124–5; affair with Cerutti 125, 126–7; meets Dorelia McNeill (q.v.) 127, 128–9; pictures exhibited at; the Carfax 135; abandoned by Dorelia 135–6; dreams of ‘the broad, open road’ 133–4; leases Elm House, Matching Green 138; helps Edna Clarke Hall (q.v.) 139; collaborates with Orpen in Chelsea Art School 138–9, 140; life divided between town and country 143, 144–5; dark moods and ‘blank misery’ 144, 145–6; lugubrious days at Elm House 148–9; Paris and Dorelia’s disappearance 150–1; showers Dorelia with letters 157–9; returns to London with Dorelia 159, 162; attentive to Ida in her pregnancy 163, 164; ‘call of the road’ upon him 164–5; at Robin’s birth 166; burlesque friendship with Rothensteins 170–3, 174; difficulties in the ménage 175–82; buys caravan from Salaman 182; and birth of Dorelia’s first son 183; happy summer on Dartmoor 184–5; roams between London and Liverpool 185; and Ida’s Paris scheme 186, 187; on better terms with Ida’s mother 188–9; marshals tribe in Paris 191, 192–3
1905–8
finds an apartment 193; terrorized by the children 195; and move to rue Dareau 197; tries to sell Chelsea Art School 199; British Museum makes request for his etchings 200; exhibits at Chenil Gallery 200, 201; motives behind friendships 201–2, 203; sees more of Wyndham Lewis 202–3; involvement with Lamb (q.v.) 205–6; begins affair with Alick Schepeler (q.v.) 209–14; and Romilly’s birth 215; relationship with Epstein (q.v.) 203–5; at Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes 215, 216–17, 218–20; to Paris 220, and London 221; Christmas at the rue Dareau 224–5; moves into Paris Studio 228–30; paralysed by Ida’s illness 230–1; enthusiastic about Henry 231; refuses Ida nothing 232; remains with her 233; extraordinary relief after her death 233–4; absence from the cremation 234; her death a catalyst 236–7; loses children to Ada Nettleship 237–8; continues negotiations over Chelsea Art School 239–40; summons Dorelia and babies to Equihen 241–2, 246–7; seeks solitude 247–8; finds Euphemia Lamb ‘an irresistible boy’ 250; and Ada Nettleship’s removal of children 252–5; all manner of schemes with Dorelia 255–6; sells Paris studio lease 256–7; meets Picasso 257; invited to paint Yeats 242–6; says goodbye to ‘the Schepeler’ 258; depressed by English art world 258, 259; meets Fry 259; feels hemmed in 259–60; to marry or not to marry Dorelia 270
1908–10
romance with Ottoline Morrell 260–7, 268, 269; sets off for Spain but remains in Paris with Dorelia 270–1; heated exchanges with Ada Nettleship 272–3; abducts his children 273–4; at Diélette 275; Edna Clarke Hall as model for ‘Girl on the Cliff’ 276–7; leases Church Street studio 277–8; broken collar-bone and bourgeois winter 278, 283; paints Nicholson 278–9; takes to Surrey roads 279–80; receives a man’s ear 282–3; fired by Ma
cfie to recruit for Gypsy Lore Society 283–4; paints Jane Harrison 285; encamps at Grantchester 285–7; portrait of Dowdall 287–9, 291–3; absconds to Wales 289–90; adventuring and bloody combat 290–1; and the end of travelling life 293–4; sees a lot of Arthur Symons (q.v.) 294–9; portrait of Quinn (q.v.) 299–300; their friendship 300–4; melancholia and dissatisfaction 305; feels he must live apart from Dorelia 306–7; in Provence 307–11, and Italy 311–13; back to Provence and anxious letters to Dorelia 313–15; with Dorelia and children at Martigues 315, 316–19; gypsy scholarship and ‘inveterate whores’ 319–20; and Ottoline Morrell’s visit 320–1; unsettled by Frank Harris 321–5; terrified by Dorelia’s illness 325–6; returns to London 326
1910–14
position in the art world 329–36; Provençal studies exhibited at Chenil 326, 334, 338–40, 348; ‘a bloody show!’ 341–2; recommends artists to Quinn 342–3, 353–4; and the Allied Artists’ Association 347–8; admitted to Camden Town Group 348, 352; withholds work from Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition 348–9, 350–1; with Innes (q.v.) in Wales 352, 354–5; hot embrace in London 357–8; in Wales with Innes again 359; and move to Alderney Manor 359, 360, 361, 365; in Liverpool 361; days (and nights) at Alderney 369–71; affairs and flirtations 372–4; pursued by Mrs Strindberg 374–8, 380; careers over France with Quinn 378–80; hires Hope-Johnstone as tutor 382–5; sends children to Dane Court 385, 386–7; bewildered by Caspar’s choice of career 387–8; love of babies 388; Pyramus’s death and Poppet’s birth 389–90; in Ireland with Gogarty 390–1, and Macnamara 392–3; at Chirk Castle 393–5; takes Llwynythyl with Holbrooke and Sime 395; in Marseilles and Paris, and back in Wales 395–6; overwhelmed by Lane’s (q.v.) picture 396–7; produces best work 397; well represented at the Armory Show (1913) 334, 488; many houses 397; commissions Mallord Street house 397–400; sheds Welsh cottages 400; meets ‘excellent people’ at Lamorna 400; and Brownsword’s pregnancy 413–15
1914–20
and declaration of war 401, 402–3; drills with Wadsworth at RA 402; refuses presidency of Ormonde Terrace scheme 427; sees Gwen John in Paris 403–4; presides at Vivien’s birth 412; and Lady Gregory’s use of Shaw as bait 410; three portraits survive 410–12; plans picture of Galway 405–6, 407; Lloyd George a ‘hot-arse’ 408–9, MacDonald too dim a subject 409, Balfour asleep 409–10; knee operation and rejected for military service 424; wartime affairs 415–16; parties in Mallord Street 421–2; paints Admiral Fisher 407; Epstein sculpts his head and suspects conspiracy 423–4; exhibits at the Alpine Club 425–6; paints Lady Cynthia Asquith 428–9; produces lithograph for British Aims and Ideals 429; off to war as a Canadian Major 430; calls on Gwen John 436–7; billeted at Aubigny 431–2; with Wyndham Lewis at Lieven 432–3, 434; as guest of Lord Beaverbrook 433; knocks out fellow officer 434; back in England ‘in a state of utter mental confusion’ 434–5; starts Canadian cartoon and ‘Fraternity’ 435–6; at Adelphi on Armistice Day 438–9; attends Paris Peace Conference 439–41; begins friendship with T. E. Lawrence 454; paints Lawrence and Marchesa Casati 454–5; reluctant to be demobilized 441–2; ‘very unstable’ 442; as guest of Lloyd George 442; exhibits portraits at Alpine Club 442; has nose operation 442