A Lesson in Art and Life

A Lesson in Art and Life PDF Author: Hugh St Clair
Publisher: Pimpernel Press
ISBN: 9781914902055
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Revised and updated paperback edition of this acclaimed biography of a unique couple who were hugely influential across the spheres of art, gardening and cookery.

A Lesson in Art and Life

A Lesson in Art and Life PDF Author: Hugh St Clair
Publisher: Pimpernel Press
ISBN: 9781914902055
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Revised and updated paperback edition of this acclaimed biography of a unique couple who were hugely influential across the spheres of art, gardening and cookery.

Benton End Remembered

Benton End Remembered PDF Author: Gwenneth Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781910787977
Category : Art schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"When Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines opened The East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, Essex, in 1937 they were both established artists with international reputations...Their idea was to set up an art school which would provide an alternative to the formal courses offered by the art schools in the metropolis. The aim, as expressed in the school's brochure, was to provide 'an environment where students can work together with more experienced artists in a common endeavour to produce sincere painting.' The emphasis was on encouraging freedom of invention, enthusiasm, and enjoyment, with the assumption that the student 'believes himself to have a clear idea of creative work and requires help only in its production'...The extracts which form the text of this book are based largely on conversations with our contributors which took place during the years 1998 and 1999. Articles, extracts from an autobiography and a diary are also included. They comprise the affectionate memories of a few of those who knew and loved Benton End and its two gifted and hospitable hosts." -- from the Introduction.

Cedric Morris and Lett Haines

Cedric Morris and Lett Haines PDF Author: Ben Tufnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780903101691
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Cedric Morris

Cedric Morris PDF Author: Janet Waymark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912892204
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Drawing on archive material and extensively illustrated with the work of Morris and contemporary artists, this book explores Morris's roots in Wales, follows his travels in Europe and beyond in the 1920s, and evokes the singular camaraderie of the East Anglian School.

Sir Cedric Morris

Sir Cedric Morris PDF Author: Cedric Morris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, British
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Cedric Morris & Christopher Wood

Cedric Morris & Christopher Wood PDF Author: Nathaniel Hepburn
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781906509187
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A story of a forgotten friendship explored through personal diaries and archive writings.

Benton End Remembered

Benton End Remembered PDF Author: Gwynneth Reynolds
Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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"When in 1939 Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines visited Benton End, overlooking the River Brett on the outskirts of Hadleigh, Suffolk, they were both established artists with international reputations. What they found was a somewhat ramshackle but capacious sixteenth-century house which had been unoccupied for fifteen years, standing in over three acres of walled gardens lost beneath brambles and elderberries. But in 1940, Benton End became both their home and the new premises of the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing which they, disillusioned with the commercial aspects of the art world, had founded together in 1937." "From 1940 until Lett Haines died in 1978 and Cedric Morris in 1982, Benton End was an exotic world apart where art, literature, good food, gardening and lively conversation combined to produce an extraordinarily stimulating environment for amateurs and professionals alike. Ronald Blythe recalls that 'there was a whiff of garlic and wine in the air. The atmosphere ... was robust and coarse, and exquisite and tentative all at once. Rough and ready and fine mannered. Also faintly dangerous.'" "The sharply differing characters and interests of Cedric Morris and Lett Haines ensured the widest range of contacts and visitors to Benton End who included Victoria Sackville-West, Elizabeth David, Francis Bacon, Randolph Churchill, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. There was no formal teaching and students were left free to pursue their own enthusiasms and to show their work to Cedric or Lett for advice. Cedric's skill as a plantsman and noted breeder of irises, contrasted with Lett's intellectual sophistication and interest in food, wine, artistic experimentation and general lack of enthusiasm for the outdoors." "Over the years many hundreds of students and visitors spent time at Benton End and these included Lucian Freud, Lucy Harwood, David Carr, Glyn Morgan, Kathleen Hale, Beth Chatto, Maggi Hambling and Ronald Blythe. It was Gwynneth Reynolds whose idea it was to assemble the recollections of 30 other former students and friends and to illustrate them with over 70 colour reproductions of works by Lett Haines and Cedric Morris."--BOOK JACKET.

Albert Huie

Albert Huie PDF Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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This is the first full-length description and critique of the work of Albert Huie, arguably Jamaica's most revered painter, and one of the first home-grown artists to have enjoyed a full professional career. Illustrated in full colour, with some 69 paintings selected by Edward Lucie-Smith, this is an excellent introduction to Albert Huie's life and works.

Larry Poons

Larry Poons PDF Author: Larry Poons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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James Dickson Innes (1887-1914)

James Dickson Innes (1887-1914) PDF Author: John Hoole
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9781848221390
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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James Dickson Innes (1887-1914) was a Welsh painter who is best known for his Post-Impressionist landscape paintings of Wales. His burgeoning artistic career was tragically cut short by his death aged 27 from TB, but his output of paintings was nevertheless prolific. This is the first book to provide an overview of his art and life and is published to coincide with an exhibition at the National Museum Wales marking the centenary of his death.Innes was born in South Wales and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, from 1905 to 1908, where he met fellow artist Derwent Lees. In 1907 he began a friendship with Augustus John, and with John and Lees Innes wandered over a remote and unfashionable part of North Wales in pursuit of a romantic freedom. He also made several trips abroad in order to paint, most importantly to Collioure, France, in 1908 and 1911.This new book, which incorporates a catalogue of all his known works, provides Innes' growing following of collectors with a definitive source of reference on his work. The scope of the book, while providing an analysis of Innes' stylistic developments, also touches upon, and illustrates, the work of some of his close friends and collaborators, Derwent Lees, Albert Rutherston, John Fothergill and Augustus John. Through the inclusion of accounts of Innes by his male contemporaries, a picture of his personality and his industry is revealed as well as their sense of loss at his early death at the age of 27.