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Egon Schiele
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The Art Of Egon Schiele
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by Erwin Mitsch |
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Seurat
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by John Russell |
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will take you to my page of recommended books by and about Sickert.
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This link will take you to the John Skeaping
entry on my page of recommended books about Sculpture and Sculptors.
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Matthew Smith: His Life & Reputation |
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by Malcolm Yorke |
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Stanley Spencer : Visions Of A Berkshire Village
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by Duncan Robinson |
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Stanley Spencer The Man : Correspondent |
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by John Rothenstein |
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St Ives Artists
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David Tovey art historian devoted himself
to a full, in-depth analysis of St Ives focusing on the years 1800-1950.
I first saw the "St Ives Art pre-1890: The
Dawn of the Colony" by David Tovey when I
was holidaying in St Ives. I borrowed the
book from St Ives library & thought I must buy this book when I return
home. As luck would have it, I noticed it in the window in a second-hand book
shop in Penzance & Michael bought it.
You may be interested in David Tovey's own
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St Ives Art pre-1890: The Dawn of the Colony
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by David Tovey
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Looks at the work of the visitors to St
Ives prior to the formation of the
colony in 1885 and at the initial success of the colony,
in the years up to 1889. Artists featured include Edward William Cooke, George
Wolfe, John Brett, William Trost Richards, Bastien-Lepage, James McNeill
Whistler, Emile-Louis Vernier, Stanhope Forbes and many more.
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Pioneers of St Ives at Home and Abroad (1889-1914)
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by David Tovey
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Having enjoyed the above book so much I
went on to buy this heavier tome by the same author.
It deals with the major paintings by
British and foreign artists working in St Ives.
Artists featured include, Edmund Fuller, George H. McCord
Julius Olsson, William Titcomb, Adrian Stokes,
Charles Muirhead, Dorothy Robinson, Louis Grier and many more.
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St Ives (1860-1930) The Artists and the Community A Social History
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by David Tovey
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Looks at the way of life of the artists at
their homes and studios and other members of the
artistic community who included photographers,
caricaturists, writers and musicians.
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Sea Change - Fine and Decorative Art in St Ives 1914-1930
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by David Tovey
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Artists featured include Christopher Wood, Ben
& Winifred Nicholson, Julius Olsson, Frances Hodgkins,
Bernard Leach & many more.
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Creating a Splash The St Ives Society of Artists
(1927-1952)
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by David Tovey
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The book covers the astonishing success of
the St Ives Society of Artists during this period.
Artists featured include Julius Olsson, Adrian Stokes,
Stanhope Forbes, Laura Knight, Stanley Spencer, Ben
Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon,
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham & many more.
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Graham Sutherland
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by Ronald Alley |
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Graham Sutherland : A Biography
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by Roger Berthoud |
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The Art Of Graham Sutherland
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by John Hayes |
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Sutherland : The Wartime Drawings
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by Tassi |
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See also : Alan Ross for more information
on Sutherland
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I quote an extract from Alan Ross's book.
When Sutherland was a war artists in London during the bombing he wrote:
"I will never forget those extraordinary first encounters: the silence,
the absolute dead silence, except
every now & again a thin tinkle of falling glass - a noise which
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by Jean Bouret |
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by David Hill |
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| Turner |
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by Graham Reynolds |
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Turner & The Sublime |
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by Andrew Wilton |
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J.M.W. Turner A Wonderful Range Of Mind
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Keith Vaughan Journals 1939-1977 |
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John Murray edited by his friend Alan Ross |
| The Journals are very depressing in parts, but there are funny times too. He was an acutely powerful observer of
people, and was very descriptive about them in his journals. He didn’t discover Cézanne until he was in
his 20s. Graham Sutherland greatly influenced him. Vaughan, together with John Craxton, John Minton & others
were to form the ‘Neo-Romantic’ school of British painters. For one so shy the Journal is written with extraordinary
candour. There are line drawings scattered throughout the book. His paintings are of abstract landscapes with male
nudes. They are painted in vibrant colours, predominately ultramarine blue. Unfortunate then that no examples appear
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: Alan Ross which contains a section on Keith Vaughan.
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Keith Vaughan His Life & Work |
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by Malcolm Yorke |
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in many of the gaps from the above Journals.
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There is also a section about Keith Vaughan in
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by Brian Sewell |
| Brian Sewell discusses Vaughan's life, work &
the above books. He states that "Keith Vaughan would have
made a sound critic". I would agree with this & furthermore
I would have liked to see them together discussing
{pulling apart} artists! |
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For more information about Keith Vaughan see:
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by Malcolm Yorke |
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Vermeer’s Camera |
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John Wells The Fragile Cell |
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by Matthew Rowe |
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Carel Weight |
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by Mervyn Lavy |
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Carel Weight: A Haunted Imagination |
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by R V Weight |
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life
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by G H Fleming |
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Victorian Outsider: A Biography of Whistler |
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by Roy McMullen |
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Whistler |
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by Frances Spalding |
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Whistler On Art |
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by James McNeill Whistler |
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Christopher Wood English Painter |
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by Richard Ingleby |
| A very moving biography by Richard Ingleby. He draws from previously unpublished letters. Wood, together with his
friend Ben Nicholson discovered the St Ives artist Alfred Wallis. |
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An American Vision Three Generations Of Wyeth Art |
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by James H. Duff et al |
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The Art Of Andrew Wyeth |
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by Wanda Corn |
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First Impressions |
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by Andrew Wyeth : Richard Merryman
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This link will take you to the David Wynne
entry on my page of recommended books about Sculpture and Sculptors.
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Jack Yeats
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by Frank Whitford
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Jack Yeats {1871~1957} was the son of the painter John Butler Yeats &
brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.
This major biography explores his friendships with John Masefield,
John Millington Synge, & Samuel Beckett & analyses the artist’s life
& output of his sometimes controversial work, which included seven
novels, nine plays a thousand paintings, illustrations & drawings.
Expressionistic in style, the violent colours are applied with a
palette knife. Yeats’s work may also be compared to that of Auerbach,
Kossoff & De Kooning.
Oscar Kokoschka influenced Yeats, not only in his art but also in his
approach to life.
Jack Yeats was born in London, but spent most of his formative years
in Ireland. He had a passion for drawing boxing scenes & an
interest in the theatre, inspired by the admiration of Walter Sickert
who became a lifetime friend. Both enjoyed painting in oils the
theatrical & street scenes of London.
The author has extensively researched the book & it is
generously illustrated with colour & b/w photographs throughout.
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Jack B. Yeats |
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