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W R Sickert

 
Walter Richard Sickert was one of the leading British Impressionists. He founded the Camden Town Group & later belonged to the London Group, the NEAC & the RA.

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Jack Yeats Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Bruce Arnold
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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Camden Town Group Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Dr Wendy Baron
An excellent source of information about the Camden Town Artists. These included painters such as Sickert, Spencer Gore, Augustus John, Wyndham Lewis, Pissarro and others.
 
Sickert Paintings Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Dr Wendy Baron & Richard Shone
350 pages of extensive technical achievement packed with photographs.
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NEW Sickert: Paintings and Drawings Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Dr Wendy Baron
 
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Walter Sickert, Prints : A Catalogue Raisonné Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Ruth Bromberg
 
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Duchess Of Cork Street: The Autobiography of an Art Dealer   Click here to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Lillian Browse
Educated in South Africa, Lillian Browse's first love was ballet, but she had an active part in art-dealing for over 50 years. Her career started in the 1930s in London & helped to establish the Roland, Browse & Delbanco gallery in Cork Street. She pioneered the study of French & English painters & sculptors, among them Sickert, Degas & Rodin.
She had a significant part in promoting living British artists.
Her favourite artist & hero was Sickert. Sadly she failed to meet him, but received a telegram from him when she asked for his opinion on the authenticity on one of his paintings.
 
Sickert    
  by Lillian Browse
 
Walter Sickert & The Camden Town Group    
  by Maureen Connett
 
Walter Sickert Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
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Portrait of the Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Patricia Cornwell

  The author is the creator of the internationally acclaimed series of crime novels featuring Dr Kay Scarpetta. This non-fiction book is an intriguing investigation that will be of interest to Sickert scholars and Ripper researchers alike.

Using the exactitude of modern forensic science, Patricia Cornwell has spent six million dollars on extensive research into the murders of prostitutes in London’s East End. She has written a detailed analysis of the Whitechapel murders of 1888 claimed by Jack the Ripper, and has concluded that the artist Walter Richard Sickert was the author of the Ripper letters and possibly the murderer. She has researched his life and work, and her case for his being the letter writer is persuasive. “Arrest that man, he is in possession of a lethal paintbrush” is not so persuasive!

It is all too pat.

Sickert did have many guises and a quirky sense of humour. He was flirtatious and possibly misogynistic. He painted many nude woman in compromising positions, but then so did many other artists of this time.

The jury is still out.

“I suspect nobody, I suspect everybody”.

“It is quite a three pipe problem, Watson”.

Case re-opened.

 

An article appeared in The Art Newspaper December 2002 (issue no. 131) entitled Portrait of a Killer? in which Henry Lessore, Sickert's nephew, gives the case for his uncle's defence.

 
The Shining Sands: Artists in Newlyn and St Ives 1880 - 1930 Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Image of book cover by Tom Cross
 
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The Life And Opinions Of Walter Richard Sickert Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
by Robert Emmons
Emmons quotes from Sickert’s own writings, and from humorous reminiscences of his friends.
 
The Oxford History of English Art 1870~1940 Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Dennis Farr
The structure of the book reflects painting, sculpture, graphic arts, decorative art & architecture over the 70 years.
Dennis Farr was Director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London & also City Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham. He co-authored the Oxford Dictionary of Art

The book is sectioned into six parts. Part One and Part Three discuss the New English Art Club, Sickert, Steer, Whistler, Bloomsbury & Camden Town.
The entry for the book on Art Essays & Critiques (A - L) page of the Well Furlong Bookshop includes a more detailed list of contents.
 
Sickert & The Ripper Crimes Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by J.O.Fuller
An investigation into the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 in which Sickert was implicated. A fascinating book. Contains photographs of the Ripper murders.
 
English Art & Modernism Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Charles Harrison
   
 
Nina Hamnett: Queen Of Bohemia Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Denise Hooker
An excellent, funny book. It's obvious that the painter Nina Hamnett {a pupil of Sickert’s} liked and admired Sickert. Their repartee was well matched.
 
Sickert: The Painter and His Circle Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Marjorie Lilly
 
 
British Impressionism Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Kenneth McConkey
The book contains information & many colour plates about an accomplished generation of painters - including Sickert, Whistler, Steer, Tonks, Orpen, Lavery, Legros, Bastien-Lepage, Sargent, Forbes, Knight & many others. 132 Illustrations including 70 in colour. (Review of the Hardback edition)
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A Roger Fry Reader Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  Edited by Christopher Reed
Fry best known for organising the Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in 1910. Christopher Reed has given us a well rounded picture of Fry and of his collected essays which includes his formulation of the theory of "significant form".
 
Advice To Young Artists    
  by Walter Sickert
Sickert's writings edited by Norwich School of Art.
 
 
Roger Fry Art & Life Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by Frances Spalding
 
 
Walter Sickert: The Complete Writings on Art Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover Edited by Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins
Oxford University Press 2000 738 pp 50 mono illus
An excellent review of this book by an Independent art historian David Wooton in January 2002 edition of "The Art Book":
"Anyone with an interest in the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries should therefore be extremely grateful to Anna Gruetzner Robins.  Well known for her work on the period in general, and on Sickert in particular, she has prepared an edition of his writings that is not only complete but chronological, enabling the reader to appreciate better both his shifts of opinion and, what she terms 'his obsessive streak'. The resulting volume has a handsome, almost biblical, presence, with its wide margins, numerous reference illustrations and thorough - if not exhaustive - notes. In all, it is a scholarly act of recovery that an admirer of Sickert's late paintings might compare to the raising of Lazarus".

This articulates my view of the book perfectly.

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Modern Art In Britain: 1910~1914 Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
Book Cover by Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins
This excellent book covers the works of Sickert, Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Matisse and others.
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Sickert Drawings Theory & Practice:Word & Image Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Dr Anna Gruetzner Robins
 
 
Modern English Painters {Sickert~Lowry} Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  by John Rothenstein
 
 
Bloomsbury Portraits Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by Richard Shone
 
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Walter Sickert Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Richard Shone & Wendy Baron
 
 
A Free House! Or Artist As Craftsman {writings of W.R.S.} Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com  
  Edited by Osbert Sitwell
One should beg borrow or buy this book! Although out of print, it's worth the wait. Not only essential reading for art students, but of immense interest to anyone with a sense of humour and a sense of the absurd, which Sickert relished. His charismatic charm shines through.
 
Walter Sickert A Life Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover Matthew Sturgis
 
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Walter Sickert    
  by Denys Sutton
 
 
About Modern Art {Critical essays 1948~97} Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.com Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
Book Cover by David Sylvester
Sylvester’s robust prose in the essays collected in About Modern Art are very engaging. His heroes are Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti & Bacon - a fine recipe!
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Walter Sickert: 'drawing is the thing'    
  Whitworth Art Gallery
Book to accompany the exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery, which we saw at Southampton Art Gallery.  Essays included by Dr. Wendy Baron, Ruth Bromberg, Rebecca Daniels, Anna Gruetzner Robins, Nicola Moorby, Alistair Smith and Matthew Sturgis.
 
Matthew Smith: His Life & Reputation   Click here for more info or to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk
  by Malcolm Yorke
 
 
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