Analytical and curious, the filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, according to the film critic and director Lindsay Anderson, was “the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced.” Jennings was born in Suffolk, England, in 1907, and died young from a fall on the cliffs of Greece, in 1950. Among his many endeavors, he was also a founder of Mass Observation, an organization created in 1937 to gain insight into the everyday life of Britons. Jennings’s interest in the ordinary had evident influence on his war documentaries, writings, set designs, and art. This exhibition presents a collection of his rarely seen paintings and sketches—gripping portraits, surrealist works, vast landscapes, and sensitive depictions of rural life in the U.K. —Alexandra Lemer