Follows the life and career of the eighteenth-century British landscape artist, shows a variety of his paintings and sketches, and discusses his approach to art

Constable, His Life and Work

Cormack, Malcolm

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

Depicts the life and works of the English landscape artist

Bonington

History & Criticism

The Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough

This is the first introduction to the art and life of Thomas Gainsborough to appear for many years. Gainsborough has long been an attractive and popular figure in the history of English art, but this book shows that he was more than the well-known painter of The Blue Boy and the perennial rival to Joshua Reynolds. His role as a prototype for the modern idea of "the artist as Romantic" is discussed, while his deep knowledge of the art of the past is revealed to demonstrate his eclectic yet individual reworking of older styles. An introduction and seventy-five carefully selected paintings and drawings explain Gainsborough's life and art and his important role in the development of an independent English school. Both text and illustrations provide a unique up-to-date and perceptive survey that will be of interest to the scholar and general reader alike.

Individual Artists

Hardcover with dust jacket book illustrated with the drawings of Watteau

Drawings of Watteau

Hamlyn

The Nude: In Western Art [Jan 01, 1986] Cormack, Malcolm

The Nude: In Western Art

Harpercollins

Richard Parkes Bonington (1800-1828) was a precocious and prolific British artist who ranked after Turner and Constable as one of the most important landscape painters of the Romantic period. This illustrated study examines the artist, his work and his influence in both England and France.

Phaidon Press

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has long been renowned for its fine collection of sporting art. Owing to Paul Mellon’s interest in this genre, the VMFA’s collection comprises not only British but also American and French works. With Country Pursuits: Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Malcolm Cormack provides a consideration of these three national traditions, combined for the first time in one book. Presenting an in-depth survey of sporting art that is supported by catalog-style entries and corresponding color reproductions, this lavish coffeetable book also represents the work of each nationality in its own section.
Containing animal studies and scenes of horse racing, foxhunting and coursing, shooting and fishing, coaching and carriages, and other country pursuits, by artists such as George Stubbs, John Wooton, Sir Alfred J. Munnings, Alfred de Dreux, and George Catlin, this volume also offers a major introductory essay in which the author addresses the definition of sporting art with a particular emphasis on British artists in the context of prevailing artistic trends. Destroying the myth that only a coarse class of country squires collected sporting pictures, a separate section on British patronage describes the social and political context of sporting art.
Including biographies of the artists found in the Mellon collections and an index, Country Pursuits is a truly handsome collection for the sporting art enthusiast.

Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The world's only complete set of the British Champion Animals, by the noted American animal sculptor Herbert Haseltine (1877-1962) -- a magnificent group of 19 horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs -- is featured in this new book. The series is based on actual animals who won top awards at the show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England and other leading agricultural shows in Britain during the 1920s, when Haseltine was at his peak of creativity.
Champion Animals contains exquisite color illustrations of the sculptures by fine arts photographer Katherine Wetzel. Also included are archival photographs of many of the original animals, as well as images of the sculptor's plasticine models. The book includes excerpts for Haseltine's memoirs, which chronicle the demanding, often unpredictable process of capturing an animal's essential character in bronze or stone.

Champion Animals: Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine

Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts

Haseltine, Herbert

Published in conjunction with a 1997-98 exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Contains 21 plates reproducing Blake's 1825-6 commissioned line-engraving illustrations of the biblical text, as well as details of study sketches and related drawings. Also contains six color plates of Blake's

William Blake Illustrations of the Book of Job

BLAKE, William

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Constable, His Life and Work

Bonington

The Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough

The Paintings of Thomas Gainsborough

Drawings of Watteau

The Nude: In Western Art

Bonington

Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Champion Animals: Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine

William Blake Illustrations of the Book of Job