This month Brooklyn Rail’s Joseph Masheck discusses a provocative cultural theme in Leon Kossoff’s exhibition of paintings on view last spring at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York). 

“Over and over again, apparently, Kossoff has painted this church [Christchurch Spitafields] in his somehow lyrically heavy, putty-like manner. Asking myself why has led quite unexpectedly into a possible political iconography.”

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Leon Kossoff Christchurch, Spitalfields, 1999-2000 oil on board 56 3/8 x 51 1/8 in. (143 x 130 cm) 

Leon Kossoff Christchurch Spitalfields, 1999 oil on board 84 x 80 in. (213 x 203 cm) Inv# LK07-50