More Comrades

John Wyver writes: As yesterday’s post indicates I was very taken with the Towner Eastbourne’s exhibition Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism, which closes tomorrow, Sunday. Here are another ten images from the show which especially struck me, including, above, Cliff Rowe’s ‘Three women talking’, c 1950, from the collections (as are so many of the great loans) from the People’s History Museum, Manchester. Captions follow each of the selections below. Apologies for the reflections in some of my photos, and for the slightly wonky framing. The exhibition reveals Pearl Binder to have been a wonderful graphic artist, as is evidenced by ‘On Stage at the Cambridge Arts Theatre’, from Phillip Godfrey’s 1933 book Backstage: A Survey of the Contemporary English Theatre from Behind the Scenes. A note here is about work by Binder featured in the show from the University of Brighton Design Archives. Humphrey Spender’s immensely striking ‘Salisbury Plain, Wartime’, 1941, is from a private…