Bowie and other mysterious figures
A dreamlike collection includes existentialist Campbell warriors, JB Yeats’s children under moonlight and several life-cast masks of the shapeshifting icon
George Campbell’s gouache and ink on paper depiction from his Warrior series could be seen as a metaphor for today’s troubled world, but it was painted in 1961 – a 20th-century everyman.
Its curious genesis was explained by art historian Sile Connaughton Deeny: “George was an avid collector of ...
