Augustus John (147 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
George, William
8
Géricault, Théodore
150
Gertler, Mark
343
,
396
,
660
(n. 41)
Gertz, Elmer: AJ to
324
Gill, Eric: on the sheep and the goats
329
; AJ’s opinions on his work
343
,
660
(n. 41); discussions with AJ at Ditchling
356
; helps form Artists’ International Association
560
; mentioned
350
Augustus John to
341
Gilman, Harold
330
,
335
,
336
,
343
,
348
,
427
Ginner, Charles
343
,
348
,
417
,
427
; ‘The Café Royal’
120
Giotto
312
Glenavy, Beatrice, Lady
422
Gogarty, Oliver St John: first meeting with AJ
390–1
; pronounces AJ’s ears as Seat of his Melancholy
391
; their lifelong infuriating friendship
391
; AJ’s portraits
391
,
410
; AJ steers his Rolls-Royce
447
; poem on AJ’s driving
448–9
; warns Dunsany not to give AJ alcohol
485
; invites AJ to assist at opening of hotel
509
; arranges for ‘serious’ portrait of Yeats
509
,
510
; goes to USA
590
; mentioned
424
; ‘To Augustus John’
391–2
Gogh, Vincent van
259
,
327
,
340
,
341
,
344
,
345
,
476
,
511
,
574
Goodyear, Conger
489
,
492
,
508
; AJ to
558
,
561
,
563
Goodyear, Mrs: sits to AJ
489
Gore, Spencer: remembers AJ at Slade
44
; exhibits at Allied Artists’ Association
330
; recommended by AJ to Quinn
343
; with Camden Town Group
335
,
348
; frescoes Cave of the Golden Calf
417
; mentioned
136
,
336
Gough, Sylvia
415–16
Goward, Mr (schoolteacher)
19
,
20
Goya, Francisco de
54–5
,
145
,
484
Grafton Gallery
478
; ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (1910)
326
,
327–9
,
330
,
331
,
334
,
335
,
336
,
340
,
341–2
; ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’ (1912)
xix
,
327
,
328
,
331
,
335
,
336
,
348
,
349
,
350–1
Graham, Constance
562
Graham, Harry: ‘Augustus John’
610–12
Graham, Robert Cunninghame
121
Grainger, Percy
282
Gramophone
383
fn
Granero (matador)
483
Grant, Duncan: studying in Paris
248
; sickened by Lambs
249
,
250
; stimulated by Lady Ottoline
262
; sees Gwen John
436
; associated with Euston Road artists
517
; mentioned
346
Maynard Keynes to
286
Lytton Strachey to
249
Graves, Robert
510
Gray, Cecil
448
,
450
,
562
,
566
; AJ to
504
Gray, Ronald: Tonks to
40
Gray, Stuart
427
and fn.
Greaves, Walter
343
Greenhill School, Tenby
19–20
,
26
,
29
Gregory, Anne
410
Gregory, Lady Augusta: meets AJ
145
; invites him to Coole Park
242
; discusses literary matters with Yeats
243
; reactions to AJ etching of Yeats
244
,
245
; influence on AJ
280
; invites AJ to Coole again
359
; uses Shaw as bait to lure AJ
410
,
411
; mentioned
393
John Quinn to
299–300
Gregory, Richard
410
Gregory, Robert
242–3
,
246
,
410
,
411
William Orpen to
51
Grigson, Geoffrey
517
,
569
; Wyndham Lewis to
517
Griller Quartet
472
Groome, Francis Hindes:
Kriegspiel
101
Grosvenor Gallery, London
478
Grunfeld, Frederick V.:
Rodin
…
217
Guardian
568
Guevara, Alvaro (‘Chile’)
343
,
381
,
500
Guiche, Duchesse de
442
Guilbert, Yvette
70
Gumfreston Church, nr Tenby
23
,
554
Guys, Constantin
345
gypsies: AJ warned against by father
4
; he feels kinship with
26
,
27
,
48
,
56
; AJ, McEvoy and Evans meet up with tinkers in Wales
41
; and John Sampson
100–3
; AJ welcomed as fellow vagrant
104
; AJ etchings of
108
,
109
; AJ spends more time with
111–12
; and AJ’s creation of Dorelia
127
; at Matching Green
138
; at Ste-Honorine
215
,
217
,
218
; AJ’s urge to be closer to
280
,
281–2
; Fabian de Castro
280–1
; at Cherbourg
281
; plot to expel from Europe
281
; send AJ amputated ear
282
; AJ protests against their exclusion from Epsom racecourse
284
; Matthew Wood and bloody combat in Wales
289–91
; frighten Hugh Lane out of wits
305
; Marseilles teeming with
309–11
; grand reunion in Milan
312–13
; at Villa Ste-Anne
319
; evening in Essex
358
; Dorothy Brett recalls
421
; AJ no longer paints
453
; AJ petitions MPs on their behalf
560
; look on AJ as brother and champion;
see also
Sampson, John:
Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
Gypsy Lore Society
xix
,
xxvi
,
xxix
,
283
,
284
,
311
fn
,
319
,
549
,
56
l
Haddon, Trevor: AJ to
239
Haggard, Henry Rider
385
Hake, Egmont
201
Hale, Kathleen
368–9
,
445–6
,
449
,
453
;
A Slender Reputation
530
Hall, Edna Clarke (
née
Waugh): a Slade School ‘genius’
50
,
54
,
61
; on Tonks and AJ
53–4
; friendship with Ida John
62
,
65
,
118
; marriage and effect on artistic life
50
,
51
,
139–40
; AJ shatters peace at party
67
; attends life-drawing classes at Chelsea Art School
139
,
140
; devasted by Ida’s death
276
; ill at ease with Dorelia
276
; poses for ‘Girl on the Cliff’ and kissed by AJ
276–7
; AJ’s children farmed out with
271
,
278
; mentioned
86
,
552
Hall, Very Reverend George
283
Hall, William Clarke
50
,
51
,
62
,
139–40
,
276
; Edna Clarke Hall to
65
Hamilton, Duchess of
407
Hamnett, Nina: ‘the Sybil of Soho’
419
; on AJ
206
Augustus John to
58
Hardy, Florence
464–5
Hardy, Thomas: his poems ‘wonderful things’
103
; meeting with AJ
464
; AJ’s portrait
208
,
464–5
Harris, Frank: first meeting with AJ
321
; appearance
321
; on AJ and his work
119
,
299
,
322
; invites AJ to Nice
307
,
322–3
,
324
,
337
;
Contemporary Portraits
323–4
;
The Man Shakespeare
321
,
322
; ‘The Miracle of the Stigmata’
322
;
Undream’d of Shores
323
Harrison, Jane: AJ’s portrait
285
,
286
Hart, Miss (ex-pupil of AJ)
196
Hart-Davis, John
416
Hart-Davis, Sybil
416
Hastings, Sussex: Knewstub in
480
,
481
Haverfordwest, Wales
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
; Victoria Place
3–4
,
5
,
6
,
11
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
97
Hay, Sylvia: AJ to
580
Hayward, Lawrence
568
Head, Edward J., R.A.
30
Heald (AJ’s friend)
450
Hearst, Randolph
490
Heine, Heinrich:
Florentine Nights
69
Hell, Dr Johann
469
fn
Henriques, Fiore de (sculptress)
592
Herbert, A. P.
527
fn
Herbert, Kathleen
see
Everett, Katherine
Herbert, Mary
428
Herkomer, Herbert von: portrait of Admiral Lord Fisher
407
Hicks, Zoë (AJ’s daughter): birth
459–60
; Eve Fleming tries to adopt
460–1
; relationship with AJ
461–2
,
522
; and AJ’s last midnight expedition
598–9
Hiles, Barbara
see
Bagenal, Barbara
Hillier, Bevis:
The Early Years of the New English Art Club
91
(quoted)
Hinton, Margaret: Ida John to
167
,
168
Hinton, James
637
(n. 66)
Hodgson, Ralph: ‘Time, You Old Gipsy Man’
282
Holden, Inez: AJ to
535
Hone, Nathaniel
299
Hone, Joe
391
,
453
; AJ’s portrait
208
Hone, Vera
391
Hope-Johnstone, John: engaged as tutor
383–5
; sets off for Outer Mongolia
385
; arrested as spy
414
; offers himself as father to Brownsword’s baby
414–15
; dances back from war
451
; arrives at Mallord Street with Chiquita
458
; AJ’s portraits
201
,
208
Hope-Nicholson, Felix: AJ to
575
Hopkinson, Tom
569
Horizon
(review)
567
Horniman, Annie
244
Housman, A. E.
653
(n. 58)
Hudson, Nan:
Walter Sickert to
407
Hudson, W. H.
121
;
The Purple Land
102–3
Hugh, Ferdinand G.
131
fn
H
ughes, Frances
xx
Hughes, Richard
xx
,
373–4
,
511
,
531
,
532
,
550
,
600
Hughes, William
441
Hulse, Lady: Dorelia McNeill to
548
Hulton, Edward
462–3
Humphries, Ruth
421
Huneker, James G.
334
; Quinn to
379
;
Promenades of an Impressionist
338
Hunt, William Holman
222
Huxley, Aldous
262
,
372–3
fn
,
591
;
Point Counter Point
674
(n. 1)
Illustrated London News
209
,
590
Imperial War Museum
442
Independent Society of Artists (New York)
491