Myra (painting) Myra (painting) Myra is a large painting created by Marcus Harvey in 1995. It was displayed at the "Sensation" exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London from 8 September to 28 December 1997. The work measures . At first sight, it resembles a greatly magnified version of a black and white photograph printed in a newspaper. It was made using casts of an infant's hand to build up a mosaic of black, grey and white handprints, creating a reproduction of the iconic police photograph of a hard-faced Myra Hindley with bouffant peroxide blonde hair
Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade artists calling themselves the New English Art Club at the Dudley Gallery in London. The painting was also included in two posthumous exhibitions of Sargent’s work, once in 1925 at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, and again in 1926 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. After its acquisition by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1986, "Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade" was featured in three additional special exhibitions. The first was an exhibition of selected new acquisitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1987, in which it received special distinction amongst the other highlighted works. The painting