Author: (THIRTIES) WILCOX Timothy

BHB Catalogue No: 36807

Description: Excellent. Published to accompany the exhibition at Nottingham and Salford. Illustrated throughout in colour. Lots of good figurative painting and posters etc from the period. Major artists. ‘It reveals a small, group of figure painters, situated stylistically between the avant-garde abstractionists and the entrenched 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, painters whose contribution to British painting between the wars is only now being fully recognised. Alongside them are shown a host of lesser names, including Maxwell Armfield, Laura Knight and Harold Williamson. Their paintings of swimmers, cyclists and sunbathers promote the pursuit of leisure, one of the most remarkable social phenomena of the 1930s.’. Recommended

Condition: Fine in Fine Dustwrapper

ISBN: 9780856676195

Publication Date: 2006

Publisher: Djanogly Gallery

Cover Type: HB

Size: 270x225, 112pages