Spring and the Student
Artist: Norman Blamey RA (English, 1914-2000)
Date: 1974-1975
Medium: Oil on board
Collection: Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Description
The sitter in this work is the artist’s son, Stephen. At the time he was a postgraduate student studying maths and philosophy. The book in his hand is Mathematical Logic and Hilbert’s E-Symbol, a 1969 volume by A.C. Leisenring. Stephen appears transfixed by his reading, conveying his studious nature and intellectual abilities – in later life, he went on to become a philosopher and logician.


















