Interior
Charles MCCALL
(British, 1907-1989)
Interior
Date1950s
Mediumoil on board
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Bequest of Margaret Mallory
Object number1998.50.54
Collection
- 20th century European
On View
Not on viewLabel TextMcCall is now considered a minor artist, who worked in a painterly idiom first established by Edouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard (the so-called ‘Nabis’) in the 1890s. Like those French colorists, he captured domestic interiors similar to this one, described with a tapestry of colors that shimmer with the intimacy of everyday life. Born in Edinburgh and a longtime fixture of all of the major London galleries, McCall’s career extended well into the last century. He remained unresponsive to later 20th-century trends towards abstraction and conceptual art, continuing to paint figures absorbed in ordinary tasks, seemingly lost in their own interiorized worlds.
