This catalogue reveals all the oil paintings from the Museum's various locations around the country 1,870 works in total. This includes a significant body of work by Connard, Knight, Lavery, the Nashes, Nevinson, Orpen and Weight.
"By the end of the First World War the Imperial War Museum held the most important collection of contemporary British art in the country. Augmented by subsequent war artist schemes, the collection now offers an insight into twentieth century warfare both on the front line and at home. This catalogue reveals all the oil paintings - 1,870 in total. This includes important works of modern British art by artists such as Knight, the Nashes, Nevinson, Orpen, Sargent and Spencer, alongside more recent acquisitions."--BOOK JACKET.
The Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of oil paintings is less well known than its encyclopaedic holdings of sculpture and applied arts, watercolours, miniatures and other works on paper. However, the museum has also acquired oil paintings since its foundation, and currently has over 2,500 works in this medium. The Victoria and Albert Museum initially collected and displayed oil paintings to tell the story of British art and provide exemplary material for designers: it continues to do so to elucidate the history of art and design from the Middle Ages to the present. Since the nineteenth century the V & A set high standards in its published catalogues. Its combined holdings of paintings, miniatures, watercolours and drawings now run to tens of thousands of items. This is the museum's first illustrated summary catalogue of oil paintings which are shown through thousands of photographs. Trade Orders: Professional Discount Only
For just over a century, the British Government has collected works of art by mainly British artists from the 16th century to the present day. With over 13,000 works in a broad range of media, this unique collection is displayed in Government buildings in the UK and around the world. Bringing together all the oil paintings in the Collection for the first time, this catalogue provides an important insight into the key role the Government Art Collection plays in promoting British art and culture. This is the 19th catalogue in the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series published by the Public Catalogue Foundation. Consisting of over 350 pages, the catalogue lists 2,499 works and show color photographs of almost every one together with some 40 page color reproductions. Trade Orders: Professional Discount Only
This catalog reveals the rich and diverse cultural heritage of Essex through its 59 public collections and their 2,135 oil paintings. Whilst there is much to admire amongst the county's paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it is the twentieth century works that stand out. These include 638 works in oil by Sir Alfred Munnings at his house in Dedham, 40 by the North-West Essex artists in the Fry Gallery at Saffron Walden and the largest collection of publicly owned Latin American art in Europe at the University of Essex. The Public Catalogue Foundation is a registered charity based in the National Gallery, London, that has been set up to record the nation's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership and to make this accessible through a series of affordable catalogs. The catalogs are produced on a county-by-county basis. Catalogs published to date: Cambridgeshire: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Suffolk, East Sussex, Kent, London: The Slade and UCL, West Sussex and West Yorkshire: Leeds, North Yorkshire, Surrey, Norfolk and The Imperial War Museum .
This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.
The most comprehensive volume of its kind, Gray's Dictionary of British Women Artists offers extensively-researched biographies of some of the most significant female contributors to British art.This volume will make a valuable contribution to the study of art history. It will also provide readers with significant insight into a long-neglected aspect of history - the lives and achievements of women artists. Each entry provides key biographical information, as well as (where possible) commentaryon the artist's studies, lifestyle, travels and family. Entries also detail significant works, exhibitions and membership of societies. Gray's introduction provides a useful context to the biographies.