0 Comments Monday, May 27, 2013 | by admin
It used to be difficult to see Harold Harvey's paintings (and still is difficult to see the real thing) but now there are various websites devoted to him (this one is in Russian curiously enough and this one publicises the book about him, Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall 2001). My Kitchen 1923 © Oldham Art Gallery is, like several of Harold Harvey's other paintings, uncomfortable from a 21st century perspective because of the relationship between 'mistress' and 'servant'. And very few of us would contemplate cooking a lobster, for all kinds of reasons (cf. the scene in the excellent film about a family holiday on Tresco, Archipelago).