Acclaimed painter and writer, Percy Wyndham Lewis is widely regarded as one of early British Modernism's most controversial and influential figures. This exhibition presents over sixty works, from 1910 to 1950, which capture key figures from Lewis's life and represent a unique record of some of the greatest literary and artistic creators of the first half of the twentieth century.
Founder of the groundbreaking Vorticist movement in 1912, and a prominent literary figure during the late 1920s and 1930s, Lewis was also a prolific portrait painter and this exhibition presents many of the leading personalities in the development of modernism in Britain, who were part of Lewis's social and artistic circle.
Portraits of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce, the other 'Men of 1914', are here brought together for the first time, including Lewis's most famous portrait of Eliot, painted in 1938. Other leading figures from the 1920s and 30s art and literary scene are also included, such as Edith Sitwell, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Stephen Spender and G.K. Chesterton.
Travel
Nearest Underground: Charing Cross (Northern/Bakerloo lines)/Leicester Square (Northern/Piccadilly lines)
Nearest Rail: Charing Cross
Access
Access to the Gallery for wheelchair users is via the Orange Street ramp entrance and the Gift shop entrance, on St Martin's Place.
The Heinz Archive and Library entrance is at the National Portrait Gallery's administrative offices located on Orange Street opposite the ramp.
Concessions
Disabled visitors pay concessionary rates and carers are entitled to free admission.
Concessionary rates also apply to senior citizens, ES40 cardholders and students in full-time education.
Notes
• Please note that photography is not allowed anywhere in the Gallery
• The Gallery will be closed 24, 25, 26 December
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