Mirror Support - Victory Head c. 1941

Harry Jennings created "Mirror Support - Victory Head" with watercolor. This little round artwork has a curious, almost coin-like quality. The painting is built up with lots of transparent layers, with a limited palette of browns, blues, and golds. I imagine Jennings hunched over a table, gently coaxing the image to life, building the layers, one on top of the other. It's fascinating to consider the artist's intention here: a Victory Head, with all the grand associations of classical art, rendered in watercolor and then used as a mirror support! You know, there’s something lovely about the intimate scale, like a secret treasure meant only for personal enjoyment. It feels like it is part of an ongoing dialogue, a gentle nod to historical styles viewed through Jennings’s own personal lens. It makes me wonder about what other echoes of the past are whispering through his work.