An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters
In the first decades of the 20th century, painters of the Ashcan School, a loosely connected group of gritty, urban realists, created images of New York City from street level. Following older artist Robert Henri's insistence that artists should make...
A Closer Look : Deceptions and Discoveries (PB)
Special Offer: Buy any 2 books from the "A Closer Look" series for only £15. View the Series here Author Marjorie E. Wieseman is Curator of Dutch Painting at the National Gallery, London. Her publications include Dutch Painting and Vermeer’s Women:...
Christen Købke : Danish Master of Light (PB)
Christen Købke (1810-1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark’s ‘Golden Age’, the period of the nation’s supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside with charm and...