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Title: Golden Age of Watercolours by Eric Shanes ISBN: 1-85894-146-6 Publisher: Merrell Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A GLORIOUS COLLECTION
Comment: Sir Hickman Bacon was a man ahead of his time as is reflected in his magnificent collection of British landscape drawings and watercolors. It is now the largest collection of English watercolors still in private ownership.
As an accompaniment to a London exhibit The Golden Age Of Watercolours presents the best of this collection - works by artists who painted during the mid nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century.
We find J. M. W. Turner, premier watercolorist, who, it is said, painted with his doors locked so as not to risk anyone discovering the secrets of how he obtained the effects of depth and breadth in his paintings.
Thomas Girtin, a rambunctious artist who was imprisoned for defaulting on his apprenticeship, was also favored by Bacon. While incarcerated Girtin amused himself by covering the walls of his cell with landscapes. A guard was astonished to see this artwork, and played a part in Girtin's eventual release.
The inventiveness of John Sell Cotman was recognized by Bacon long before Cotman won popular approval, as was the work of Richard Parks Bonington.
Art historian Eric Shanes has penned an essay recounting the making of this collection which accompanies the glorious illustrations.
- Gail Cooke
Rating: 5
Summary: AN AMAZING COLLECTION
Comment: Sir Hickman Bacon was a man ahead of his time as is reflected in his magnificent collection of British landscape drawings and watercolors. It is now the largest collection of English watercolors still in private ownership.
As an accompaniment to a London exhibit The Golden Age Of Watercolours presents the best of this collection - works by artists who painted during the mid nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century.
We find J. M. W. Turner, premier watercolorist, who, it is said, painted with his doors locked so as not to risk anyone discovering the secrets of how he obtained the effects of depth and breadth in his paintings.
Thomas Girtin, a rambunctious artist who was imprisoned for defaulting on his apprenticeship, was also favored by Bacon. While incarcerated Girtin amused himself by covering the walls of his cell with landscapes. A guard was astonished to see this artwork, and played a part in Girtin's eventual release.
The inventiveness of John Sell Cotman was recognized by Bacon long before Cotman won popular approval, as was the work of Richard Parks Bonington.
Art historian Eric Shanes has penned an essay recounting the making of this collection which accompanies the glorious illustrations.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement by Linda S. Ferber, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Brooklyn Museum of Art ISBN: 1560985720 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $49.68 |
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Title: The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent by Carl Little, John Singer Sargent ISBN: 0520219708 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880 by Andrew Wilton, Anne Lyles ISBN: 3791318799 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Mastering Atmosphere & Mood in Watercolor: The Critical Ingredients That Turn Paintings into Art by Joseph Zbukvic, Robert A. Wade ISBN: 1929834179 Publisher: International Artist Publishing Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: The Watercolors of Winslow Homer by Miles Unger, Arnold Skolnick, Winslow Homer ISBN: 0393020479 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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