“A rer čans t si ɖ yelo dres worn bî Pwlīn in ɖ fems pwtrit, plus uɖr pêntñz v Pwlīn bî hr huzbnd, Sr Jêmz Gun, ɖt r ônd bî a prîvt c̣lctr.
Pwlīn in ɖ Yelo Dres bî Sr Jêmz Gun cōzd a sensešn ẇn it arîvd at ɖ Haris jst ovr 70 yirz ago. It wz gvn ɖ ac̣led v Ɖ Môna Līza v 1944 at ɖ Royl Acaḍmi Suṃrexibišn.
Tde, Pwlīn z stl wn v ɖ most popylr pêntñz in ɖ c̣lẋn. Ɖs xibišn z a rer oṗtyṇti t si a ṣlẋn v ɖ mni pwtrits Gun pêntd v hiz wîf, includñ wrcs ɖt hv nt bn on public dsple bfr, alñsd ɖ yelo dres n ācîv mtirı̣l.
Ɖ xibišn rvizits ɖ xîtmnt v 1944 n cmeṃrets ɖ lîf v Sr Jêmz Gun, hu dîd 50 yirz ago in Dsmbr.”
PAULINE. Date painted: c.1930. Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 72 cm. Collection: Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service
MY WIFE. Date painted: c.1933. Oil on canvas, 214 x 116.8 cm. Collection: Dundee Art Galleries and Museums
PAULINE WAITING. Date painted: 1939. Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm. Collection: Royal Academy of Arts
James Gunn, by Paul Laib. 12 x 10 inch glass plate negative, 1940s. National Portrait Gallery, London
