Woolf, Virginia, A Writer’s Diary, Hogarth Press, London, 1954.
WORKS ILLUSTRATED
Most of Gluck’s paintings are in private collections. Dates and sizes are given where known. Measurement is in centimetres and height precedes width. Unless otherwise stated, the works are oil on canvas.
Colour plates following:
Medallion (29.2 × 34.2), 1936
The Three Nifty Nats (50.8 × 40.6), c. 1926
The Vernon Picture (22.5 × 77.4), 1937
The Path to the Lough (51 × 76.2), 1969
Black and white:
The Artist’s Grandfather (49.5 × 34.2), 1915
Portrait of Miss E. M. Craig (17.7 × 12.7), oil on board, 1920
The Jockey (18.4 × 24.1), c. 1924
They’re Off (25A × 36.1), c. 1924
Phoebus Triumphant, c. 1920
Bonfire, c. 1924
A. J. Munnings, Gluck dressed as a gypsy (33 × 41), pencil, 1916
Raindrops (34.2 × 48.8), c. 1924
Beatrice, c. 1920
Teddie Gerard, c. 1920
Girl in Green Hat, c. 1920
Flora, c.l920
Lady in a Mask, 1924
On and Off, the Duke of York’s theatre, c. 1924
The Saxophone Player, (Emmett Baker) c. 1926
The Tumbler, from the C. B. Cochran revue ‘On with the Dance’, c. 1926
Danse Eccentrique, c. 1924
George Reeves, pianist
Portrait of the Son of Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A.
Mrs Romaine Brooks (unfinished), 1926
Romaine Brooks, Peter, a Young English Girl (91.5 × 62.3), 1926. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
Ernest Thesiger (33.6 × 23.4), 1925
Massine Waiting for His Cue (51 × 41), c.1926. Courtesy of the trustees of the Theatre Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum
Sir James Crichton-Browne, c. 1930
Self-portrait with Cigarette (25.4 × 20.3), 1925. Stolen, 1981
Gamine (35.5 × 30.4), oil on board, c. 1932
The Unofficial Jury (24.1 × 34.2)
Baldock versus Bell at the Albert Hall (24.1 × 19), 1927
The Old Stable, Bolton House, Hampstead (24.7 × 19.7), 1930
Miss Margaret Watts (48.2 × 58.6)
The Artist’s Mother (40.6 × 35.5), 1930 86
Lilies
Le Vert et Noir
Chromatic, 1932
Broadlands (75 × 120.7), 1932
Spiritual (39.3 × 39.3)
The Devil’s Altar (135.8 × 74.9). The Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums, Brighton
Comtesse Govonne, Mariette Lydis. Destroyed by the Artist 100 Pomegranates, 1936
Oscar
Tulips (61 × 51), presented to Queen Mary by Mrs Francesca Gluckstein, 1932. Sandringham House
La Loire
Triste Chatelaine
Undine
Fleurs du Mal
Hampstead
Noel (73.6 × 101.6), 1937
The Punt (20.3 × 25.4), c. 1937
Miss Susan Ertz (80 × 100.3)
The Lady Mount Temple (100.3 × 80) c.1936
Nature Morte, c. 1937
In Aid of … charcoal drawing
Sulky Spring, Southease (25 × 35.6), oil on board, 1937
The Sands Run Out, Poole Harbour (25.4 × 35.2), oil on canvas laid on board, 1937
Falmer Church (76.6 × 87.6), 1937. Birmingham Art Gallery
Lords and Ladies (74.9 × 74.9), c. 1936 163 They Also Serve …, 1937
White Lilac and Guelder Rose. City Art Gallery, Manchester 177 Peter Giffard, 1939
John Boughey (50.8 × 40.6), 1939
Portrait of an English woman, Mrs Ernest Sawyer (50 × 39.3), 1939 180 Convolvulus, 1940
Portrait of Sir Edward Maufe with his original sketch of Guildford Cathedral (50 × 38), 1940
The Pleiades (19 × 24), oil on board, 1940–3
Violets (34.3 × 39.4), 1941
The View from Blackdown, 1942
George Hardinge Esquire, 1942
The Eighth Army Canteen (23.5 × 33.7), 1944
In England’s Green and Pleasant Land (23.5 × 34.3), 1944
Mrs Ernest Sawyer (22.8 × 28)
Self-portrait (29 × 24), 1942. National Portrait Gallery, London The Report Post (24 × 30), oil on board 1945
Edmund Dulac, Edith Shackleton Heald, pencil drawing
England (35.5 × 30), 1946
Portrait of Wilfrid Arthur, Lord Greene, Master of the Rolls (52 × 50), 1949
The Rt Hon. Sir Raymond Evershed, Master of the Rolls, 1951
The Honourable Sir Reginald Croom-Johnson, 1954
Portrait of Frau Karl (24.3 × 24.1), oil on board 1942
Autumn, 1955–68
Portrait of the Rt Hon. Justice Lord Salmon (75 × 50), 1960
Transience (19 × 24.1), 1964
Dialogue Crepusculaire (12.7 × 17.7), oil on board, 1961
The Wave (10.1 × 18.4), oil on board, 1966
Homeward (12.7 × 178), oil on board, 1964
Requiem (20.3 × 25.4), 1964
Orchestra (24.1 × 19), 1967
‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’ (36.8 × 54.6), 1970–3
INDEX
Admiral’s House, Hampstead 80
Adventures of a Bookseller 43
Aesop 21
Agate, James 218
Anderson, Colin 259
Apollo 163
Apple Tree in Snow (Stanley Spencer) 306
Architectural Design 300
Artists’ General Benevolent Association 310
Art News 65
Arts and Crafts 163
Arts Council 260, 261
Ashley, Wilfrid 92
Atkinsons, Bond Street 90
Avenue Road, St John’s Wood 34, 39
Baker, Emmett 65
Baillie, Joanna 69, 70–1
Bakst, Léon 52
Baldock, Teddy 74
Barney, Natalie 63
Battersby, Martin 289
Beaton, Cecil 13, 106
Beauclerck, Helen 207, 230, 236, 275, 282, 291
Beerbohm, Max 203
Bernard, Oliver P. 26
Biancheri, Abbé 229, 230–1, 232–4, 237, 238
Bible Readings with My Children 31
Birch, Lamorna 38, 41
Birmingham Art Gallery 164
Black Magic 123
Bliss, Arthur 81
Board of Trade 257–8, 263
Boger, Richard 307
Bolton House, Hampstead 12, 67, 69–85, 97, 126, 170, 176
commandeered in 1939 197–201
studio at 78, 79, 80, 122, 129, 139, 218, 222, 226, 242
Boughey, Hermia 177
Boughey, John 176, 177
Boughey, Noel 177, 203, 222
Boughey, Richard 293
Bourlet Rooms 255
Brighton 204, 270
Art Gallery 95, 205
British Art in Industry Exhibition (1935) 104
British Artists Colour Manufacturers Association 258, 261, 262
British Industrial Art Exhibition (1933) 92, 104
British Standards Institution 15, 263, 264, 268
Technical Committee on Artists Materials 262
Broadlands, Romsey 13, 92, 93, 94, 98, 101, 105, 148
Brooke, Clare 157
Brooks, Romaine:
Gluck’s portrait 62, 63
Peter – A Young English Girl 9, 63
Una, Lady Troubridge 63
Boughey, John 177
Buccleuch, Duke of 228
Burlington House 104, 110
Buryan Races
Busch, Fritz 121
Café Royal 54
Camden Joinery Mill 152
Canfield Gardens, West Hampstead 22, 25
Carisbrook Nursing Home 308
Carroll, Anthony 297, 304, 306, 312
Casares, Raul 260
Chailey Heritage Craft School 174, 189
, 277
Chalk, Mr 266
Chantry House, Steyning 12, 192, 204–6, 216, 221
bookplate for
Gluck moves in 207, 218–22
ménage à trois at 218–24
renovation of 211
sold to The Fund 271, 272
studio at 274–5
Yeats Room 216, 219, 270, 275
Charlot 136
Chichester
Bishop of 10, 189, 222
Cathedral 204
Chillington Hall, Wolverhampton 178, 257
Clark, Kenneth 192, 194, 261
Cochran, C. B. (colour II), 13, 14, 64, 66
Cohen, Mrs Philip 31
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 122
Colquhoun, Ithell 242
Connoisseur 300
Cookson, Georgina 71–2
Cookson, Roger 71
Cookson, Sybil 15, 16, 70–4, 84 85, 87, 95
Copeland, Ida 182, 183
Corbett, Leonora 153, 219
Cornwall 10, 13, 15, 38, 48, 52, 65, 137, 168, 270, 308
Coster, Howard, photograph of Gluck 18
Coward, Noël 64
Coxhead, Elizabeth 214
Craig, E. M. 15, 16, 38, 42, 43, 48, 50–3, 54, 62, 77, 95, 97, 130, 283, 284, 291
Cribb, Joseph 231
Crichton-Browne, Sir James 70, 72, 80, 85
Crichton Institute 70
Croom-Johnson, Sir Reginald 242, 257
Cumberland Hotel 22, 27, 162, 163, 227, 246
Dawbarn, Ernest 108. 111, 152, 164, 173, 226
Delafield, E.M. 84
Dent, Alan 218
Desmond, Florence
Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich 52
Diaries of a Provincial Lady 84
Dilemma of the Painter and Conservator 259, 267
Don Giovanni 121 Dorien Leigh Gallery 53, 54
Drawing and Design 53, 65
Drumcliff, Sligo 230, 232, 238
Dulac, Edmund 64, 189, 207, 212, 215, 216, 218, 222, 275
and Yeats’s reburial 230–8
Earp, T.W. 164
Elizabeth II, Queen 157–9, 166–7, 299
Ellis, Miss Mathilde 31
Enton Hall, Sussex 276–7
Ertz, Susan 146, 162
Evershed, Sir Raymond 73, 242–4
Exhibition of Royal and Historic Furniture 174, 175, 189
Fairbanks, Douglas 43, 64
Farjeon, Eleanor 81
Farquhason, Robert (De La Condamine) 16
FAS see Fine Art Society, The
Feathered World, The 109–10
Fenton House 80
Fine Art Society, The (FAS) 78
Exhibitions of Gluck’s work
1926 12, 53, 63–7, 71, 85
1932 12, 85, 97–8, 104, 105–11
1937 143, 146, 152–68, 165, 173
1973 297–302, 303 1980–1 (memorial) 312
little contact in post-war period 222, 226, 296
re-established contact in 1970s 13, 297–9, 304
see also The Gluck Room under Gluck
Flood-Jones, Miss 37
Flower Decorations Ltd 88, 140
Footman, John 152, 167
Forbes, Stanhope and Elizabeth 38
Galsworthy, John 80
Garrick Theatre 51, 131
Gatewick, Steyning 272–4, 280
Gayfere House 92, 162
George VI, coronation of 159, 163
Gerard, Teddie
Gibbons, Stella 214
Gibson, Patrick 301
Giffard, Diana 179, 182
Giffard, Peter 173, 177
Gilbert and Sullivan 30
Gluck
and Anne Yorke 272–4, 275
burning her paintings 16, 95, 98, 139–40
and her car 172, 182, 242, 271
childhood 9, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33–5
and Constance Spry 11, 14 88–99, 140–1, 146
in Cornwall 10, 38, 41–8, 85
Credo 12, 296
cross dressing 10–11, 18, 31, 38, 65, 70, 84, 96, 98, 107, 153, 155, 270
death of 294 310–12
and Dial 133, 142
and Edith Shackleton Heald 16, 240–2, 271–7, 290, 305–8
early friendship with 192, 204, 206
moves in with 218–24
and Yeat’s bones 229–38
at Enton Hall 276–7
education 31, 34–9
exhibitions
1924, 10, 12, 53, 54, 62
1926, 12, 53, 63–7, 71, 85
1932, 12, 85, 97–8, 104, 105–11
1937, 142, 143, 146, 152–68, 165, 173
1973, 297–302, 303
1980–1 (memorial) 312
and The Family 25, 29
and The Fund 25, 198, 271, 310
flower paintings (colour III), 13, 87–9, 90, 94 97, 98, 100, 110, 146, 162, 165, 242
genre pieces (colour II), 14, 65, 66, 73, 74, 85, 110, 111, 148, 162, 163, 194
The Gluck Frame 14, 104, 111
The Gluck Room 13, 104, 105–7, 111, 152, 155
horseriding 170
idealism 14
illness 219, 298, 303, 307, 309, 310
‘Intimations’ 287
landscapes (colour IV), 13, 41–2, 48, 65, 111, 148–9
and Louis (brother) 31, 41–2, 48, 50, 66, 67, 76, 227
letters to 41, 42, 48, 50, 51–2
as trustee 198–201, 226, 271
and ‘The Meteor’ (mother) 16, 93, 111, 152–5, 157–62, 164–7, 172, 176, 54, 256, 270
closeness to 76–7, 172, 173–4
friction between 76, 77–8, 108–9, 153–4 162, 167, 172, 183, 198–202
musicality 13, 36–7, 39, 48
name 9–10, 25, 30, 38, 154–5, 292–3
and Nesta Obermer (colour I), 9, 13, 15, 16, 121–30, 131–7, 142–6, 143, 148, 152, 164, 167–79, 170, 256, 267, 271, 277–8, 289, 298
exhibition organisers 174–5
G’s letters from Hammamet 99, 100, 101
G’s love letters to 121, 126–30, 133–4, 137, 138, 140
holidays with 169–70, 173, 183, 270, 297, 302
in Plumpton 170–2, 174, 176, 179, 182, 192, 202–7
old age 313
paint war 15, 17, 148, 239–40, 255, 256–68, 270, 280, 312
publications 258, 259
portraits (colour I), 54, 65, 71, 72, 73, 85, 96, 100, 111, 148, 177, 242
self-portraits (colour I), 11, 65
of women 13, 95, 178, 181, 195, 205
sailing 173
and her servants 31–2, 134, 139, 182–3, 186, 187, 269, 282, 283, 306, 309
skating 169–70
skiing 173
smoking 42, 142, 182
specialist paints 15, 266, 289
studios 12, 41, 42, 52, 53, 69, 71, 80, 122, 127, 129, 131, 172
Bolton House 78, 79, 80, 129, 134, 139, 142, 198–201, 226
Chantry House Studio 274–5
Letter Studio 172
Millers Mead 176, 181
Tite Street 62–3
theories of paintings 12, 14, 42, 54, 89, 90, 183, 192, 312
timelessness, sense of 14, 283–4
and The Trust 48–9, 67, 76, 138, 176, 197–201, 218, 226
Will 254, 298, 310, 311, 312
and Zar (dog) 170, 171, 174, 179, 187, 204
Works:
Adolescence 146, 172
All the World’s Darling 43
AnneYorke 283
Arab Boy 100, 148
Artist’s Grandfather, The 37, 299
Artists’s Mother, The 111
Autumn 280
Baldock versus Bell
Beatrice
Bettina 53, 304
Boleigh Farm 289
Bonfire
Broadlands 93, 105
Canteen, Plumpton
Craig, E.M. 43
Chinoiserie 110
Chromatic 13, 88–9, 110
Cold Grey Stones 284
Comtesse Govonne, M
ariette Lydis 95, 98, 163
Convolvulus
Dahlias 110
Devil’s Altar 95, 97
Dialogue Crepusculaire
Dozmare Pool 43
Eighth Army Canteen
Ella Naper and Minchi Fu 43
England 221
Ernest Thesiger 66, 304
Expert Witness, The 74, 110
Falmer Church 149, 164
Fleurs du Mal 110
Flora 54, 62
Foul, The 74
Frustration 148
Gamine 72, 85, 111, 299
George Hardinge Esquire 188
George Reeves, pianist
‘Georgie’ 72
Girl in Green Hat
Glory of Mud, The 219
Hampstead
Homeward
In Aid of …149
In England’s Green and Pleasant Land 194, 204
Jockey, The
John Boughey 177
Lady in a Mask 53
Lilac and Guelder Rose 146, 164
Lilies 13, 95
Loire, La
Lord Salmon 73, 275, 280, 282, 284
Lords and Ladies 146, 164, 256
Margaret Watts 84, 85, 107, 111
Massine Waiting for His Cue 66
Medallion (colour I), 9, 123
Molly Mount Temple 146, 162
Mrs Ernest Sawyer 178, 195, 304
Nancy Morris 54
Nativity 181
Nature Morte 146, 162
Noel 125, 143–6, 162, 188
Old Stable, The 78, 111, 299
On and Off
Orchestra 290
Oscar 111, 148
Path to the Lough (colour IV), 293, 307
Peter Giffard 177
Phoebus Triumphant
Phyllis Crocker 43
Pino Orioli 43
Piper of the Merry Maidens 289
Pleiades 188, 204
Pomegranates 100
Portrait of Frau Karl 280
Primavera 96
Punt, The 143
‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light …’ 293, 294, 297, 298, 301, 304, 307
Raindrops 53, 299
Report Post, The 205, 206, 299
Requiem 284, 287
St Bury an at Dawn 289
Sands Run Out, Poole Harbour 149
Sardine Boats, St Jean de Luz 67
Saxophone Player, The 65
Self portrait 203
Seventh Veil, The 107
Sir Edward Maufe
Sir James Crichton-Browne 85, 111
Sir Raymond Evershed 73, 242, 255
Sir Reginald Croom-Johnson 242
Son of Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.A.
Spiritual 96
Sulky Spring Southease 148
Susan Ertz
Teddie Gerard 54
They Also Serve … 162, 163, 164
They’re off!
Three Nifty Nats (colour II), 13, 65, 300
Transience
Triste Chatelaine
Tulips 108–9, 110
Tumbler, The
Undine 111
Unofficial Jury, The 73
Vernon Picture of Lilies (colour III)
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