Take a look at this marvelous portrait, from the National Portrait Gallery's collection. It's of Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952), literary critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group, painted by the Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant in 1944.
I love the sitter's easy upright pose - an example to us all, and so different from the 'slump and peer' posture most of us adopt when reading or writing (or texting) these days. Notice how Desmond MacCarthy uses another book to create a makeshift reading slope.
I love the sitter's easy upright pose - an example to us all, and so different from the 'slump and peer' posture most of us adopt when reading or writing (or texting) these days. Notice how Desmond MacCarthy uses another book to create a makeshift reading slope.
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