In April 1805 the newly created Society of Painters in Water Colours, now known as the Royal Watercolour Society, held its first exhibition. After the Royal Academy, the RWS is the oldest artists' exhibiting society in Britain. Its early years saw the rise to prominence of watercolour painting, a golden age of British art and a medium in which Britain produced artists of remarkable genius. This book celebrates the Society's bicentenary by bringing together the work of its founders, Joshua Cristall, John Varley, W.S. Gilpin, W.H. Pyne and W.F. Wells. It also surveys the period from 1800 to 1851 in detail and illustrates the work of the major painters of the time--Thomas Girtin, J.M. Turner, Francis Towne, Peter de Wint, A.V. Copley Fielding, John Linnell, John Sell Cotman and many others.

The Triumph of Watercolour: The Early Years of the Royal Watercolour Society 1805-55

Arts & Photography

WILCOX, Timothy

History & Criticism

Philip Wilson Publishers

This groundbreaking book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, focuses on an overlooked strand in British painting of the 1930s. It reveals a small group of figure painters, situated stylistically between the avant-garde abstractionists and the Edwardian traditions of belle peinture, who were looking for ways of being both modern and in touch with a wide public. The artists include Stanley Spencer and William Roberts, Maxwell Armfield, Laura Knight and Harold Williamson.

A Day in the Sun: Outdoor Pursuits in the Art of the 1930s

Paintings and drawing of the ballet and the stage

Laura Knight At the Theatre -Paintings and Drawings of the Ballet and the Stage: Paintings and Drawings of the Ballet and the Stage

Individual Artists

Unicorn Publishing Group

Eric Gill and the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic

Hove Museum and Art Gallery

Boudin To Dufy - Impressionist and Other Masters from the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre

Heller, Margot

Scolar Press]

Handwriting: Everyone's Art

The Edward Johnston Foundation and Ditchling Museum

James Tower (1919 - 1988) is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive figures in post-war British ceramics. This is the first single publication to be devoted to his work and will reveal to a new audience the extraordinary range and quality of his achievement. Tower's career was unusual in inhabiting the worlds of fine art and ceramics, and his output encompassed sculptural pieces in plaster and bronze as well as glazed ceramic forms. This book provides a comprehensive visual document of Tower's work, incorporating a complete illustrated catalogue, and is set to be the standard source of reference on the artist.

The Ceramic Art of James Tower

Lund Humphries

Francis Towne achieved no recognition in his lifetime, yet today his watercolours are acknowledged as among the most original of the generation of landscape painters between Wilson and Turner. Towne's life and art are full of paradox: a successful drawing master in Exeter, he failed on ten occasions to win election to the Royal Academy; now hailed as a innovate watercolourist, he kept his work almost entirely to himself for most of his life, only to relent in old age and mount what was probably the first one-man show of watercolours in the history of British art. The catalogue is based on research in Britain and abroad. It sheds much light on Towne himself and the artistic and cultural context in which he worked; the society of 18th-century Exeter where Towne found most of his patrons is especially highlighted.

Francis Towne

Tate

Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) is one of the best-loved but least understood figures in British art. A romantic at heart, he lived through most of the Victorian age, increasingly at odds with the world around him, yet sustained by his belief in the abiding values of beauty, poetry, and landscape. This book is the first to critically examine Palmer's career, and to present his work within the artistic and cultural context of his times. It explores the visual and literary sources of his early pastoral drawings and reveals how Palmer's later work engaged with the burning controversies of the day.

Samuel Palmer (British Artists)

Tate Gallery

A fully illustrated study of Constable paintings and drawings of Salisbury

Constable and Salisbury: The Soul of Landscape

Reference

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

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