'At 91, Rose Wylie is Still Breaking the Rules with Her Joyful Paintings' by Artsy Editorial
2026
In Rose Wylie’s 2017 painting Park Dogs and Air Raid, warplanes hover over the Serpentine Galleries while dogs frolic in the brushy black foreground. With a graphic, childlike style, the artist deploys a limited palette of blue, black, white, and brown. A splash of yellow depicts a duck. Past and present merge in the work: The artist drew on her childhood memories of World War II bombing raids in London and took inspiration from an invitation to exhibit at the gallery. The work’s unexpected juxtapositions of past and present, light and dark, are emblematic of her extraordinary, utterly unique oeuvre. Read more.