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Arthur Melville
Kenneth Mcconkey
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Description for Arthur Melville
Paperback. The first monograph on the artist Arthur Melville with commentaries on the individual works featured, including lesser known works from private collections. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery 2015-2016. Num Pages: 136 pages, 80 colour. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 245 x 14. Weight in Grams: 716.
Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of the nineteenth century, yet he avoided categorisation. In 1943 that the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson confessed that although they never met, his work opened up to me the way to free painting - not merely freedom in the use of paint, but freedom of outlook . This book offers a comprehensive survey of Arthur Melville's (1855-1904) rich and varied career as artist-adventurer, Orientalist, forerunner of The Glasgow Boys, painter of modern life and re-interpreter of ... Read more
Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of the nineteenth century, yet he avoided categorisation. In 1943 that the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson confessed that although they never met, his work opened up to me the way to free painting - not merely freedom in the use of paint, but freedom of outlook . This book offers a comprehensive survey of Arthur Melville's (1855-1904) rich and varied career as artist-adventurer, Orientalist, forerunner of The Glasgow Boys, painter of modern life and re-interpreter of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
National Galleries Of Scotland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
714g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906270872
SKU
V9781906270872
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About Kenneth Mcconkey
Kenneth McConkey is Professor of Art History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He has written extensively about late Victorian and Edwardian painting. Charlotte Topsfield is Senior Curator of British Drawings and Prints at the Scottish National Gallery and has a particular interest in watercolours and Scottish drawings.
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