[Vwoolf] Julius Olsson

[Stuart N. Clarke]

The first Mrs Olsson pops up in the “Hyde Park Gate News” (pp. 84-5), but there’s more on Olsson, St Ives and the Stephens in “Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell: Remembering St Ives”, by Marion Dell & Marion Whybrow.

Stuart


“On a Painting by Julius Olsson R.A.”

Over what bridge-fours has that luscious sea
    Shone sparkling from its frame of bronzéd gold
    Since waves of foaming opalescence roll'd 
One warm spring morning, back in twenty-three, 
All through the day, from breakfast-time till tea,
    When Julius Olsson, feeling rather cold,
    Packed up his easel and, contented, stroll'd 
Back to St. Ives, its fisher-folk and quay.

Over what bridge-parties, cloche-hat, low waist,
    Has looked that seascape, once so highly-prized,
    From Lenygon-green walls, until, despised—
“It isn't art. It's only just a knack"—
    It fell from grace. Now, in a change of taste, 
See Julius Olsson slowly strolling back.

John Betjeman, “A Nip in the Air” (London: John Murray, 1974), p. 11
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