Publication

2015-12-10 - National Galleries Of Scotland

Language

English

Word Count

34,000 words, Guess

Page Count

136 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL27509231M
  • ISBN-101906270872
  • ISBN-139781906270872
  • OCLC Control Number930017017
  • Better World Books9781906270872
and 1 more
  • Better World BooksKT-097-561

Classifications

  • LCCND497
  • LCCND497.M54 A4 2015

Description

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 could confess 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 the landscape of Scotland. His travels inspired spectacular watercolours and paintings. This book illustrates around sixty of his works, each with a catalogue entry, and an essay by Kenneth McConkey, which discusses Melville's art and career. 0Exhibition: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (10.10.2015-17.01.2016).

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