Sansom & Company

Tom Early: The Catalogued Work
DENYS J WILCOX & MICHAEL MILLER

Catalogue raisonne of the work of a self-taught member of the St Ives art colony in the late 1940s and 1950s. He exhibited in St Ives and became a member of the Penwith Society of Artists. His paintings were critically well received at a ground-breaking exhibition ‘Fifteen Cornish Artists‘ at Heal´s Mansard Gallery, London in 1951.

Moving away from St Ives, Early took up painting again, after a seven-year break, when living in Derby where he helped found the Derby Group of Artists. After his premature death in 1967, his life´s work effectively disappeared from view.

It was rescued from oblivion in 1994, with a major retrospective at the Belgrave Gallery in London. Further exhibitions and critical attention followed, and in this catalogue raisonne Dr Wilcox reveals Tom Early to be a rare visionary artist with a profound poetic gift.

ISBN 1 904537 23 5, Sansom & Company, 270mm x 210mm
160 pages, Many colour illustrations, Hardback
£30 Published 2005

By the Look of Things: The Life and Work of Robert Organ
JENNY PERY

For fifty years, the West Country artist Robert Organ ‘has been painting his life.’ Some of his canvasses depict the West-country valley where he lives; others find him revisiting his childhood Weston-super-Mare, or the coast of Dorset, where he charts the sun´s path over the sea in an attempt to capture the effect of light on water.

Trips to France have led to large landscape paintings and ‘conversation pieces’ - models strutting on the beach at Cannes, accordionists playing in dance-halls. A residency at Exeter´'s Royal Albert Memorial Museum produced a set of paintings of people and artefacts in the museum; another series focussed on birds and animals in a wildlife park.

The subject of old age - a theme rarely explored in painting - found Organ drawing and painting the residents of a local nursing home, and his unflinching portrayals of the aged, rich in colour, are humane yet movingly optimistic. With these ‘genre’ scenes go numerous portraits of friends and family, including David Attenborough, Charles Dance, Michael Gough, Seamus Heaney and Nevil Marriner. Another abiding theme is the still life: large table-tops spread with books and objects collected over the years.

ISBN 1 904537 05 7, Sansom & Company, 270 x 210mm
112 pages, Many colour and some b & w illustrations, Hardback
£30 Published 2003

Charles Simpson: Painter of Animals and Birds, Coastline & Moorland
JOHN BRANFIELD

Charles Simpson, in the early 1920s the leading figure in the St Ives art colony, produced paintings of great variety. In 1913 he married Ruth Alison, a promising student at the Forbes School and together they established the St Ives School of Art, where Ruth taught portraiture. Charles exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy: pictures of his wife and daughter Leonora students on the beach, huge impressionist canvases of the estuary in the early light.

Simpson was known for his pastoral paintings and large seascapes with gulls. The 22 paintings of The Herring Season record the activities of the fishing industry in St Ives; another series contains 80 paintings of birds found along the shore and cliffs.

Simpson moved to London in 1924, forging yet another career, as a fine painter of horse racing and hunting in Leicestershire and Yorkshire. He travelled by motorcycle to attend race meetings, open exhibitions of his hunting and racing pictures and to carry out commissions for horse-and-rider portraits.

He returned to Cornwall, living in Lamorna where he painted the coastline and his favourite subject - ducks on the stream or millpond.

ISBN 1 904537 43 X, Sansom & Company, 265 x 210mm
136pp, 74 colour illustrations + 70 b & w, Softback
£19.95 Published 2005

Ella and Charles Naper: Art and Life at Lamorna
JOHN BRANFIELD

Through their close friendships, Ella and Charles Naper helped define the Lamorna art colony in its heyday.

Ella learned handicrafts at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts under Frederick Partridge, a disciple of the great arts and crafts practitioner C R Ashbee and later joined his jewellery workshop at Branscombe in south Devon. There she developed and refined her feel for art nouveau.

Ella married Charles Naper, a young architect and painter. They moved to Lamorna in 1912, building Trewoofe at the head of the valley. They soon became part of the Lamorna Birch circle, making lifelong friendships with Laura and Harold Knight, Harold and Gertrude Harvey, and the lesbian painter Gluck.

In the early 1920s Ella set up the Lamorna Pottery with Kate Westrup, producing beautifully modelled ceramic figures. Charles Naper was an accomplished landscape painter, best known for his studies of the geometry of cliffs and the patterns and shapes of rock formations.

The enduring artistic legacy is Ella's elegant jewellery, today high regarded by connoisseurs and collectors.

• Strong Lamorna art colony interest
• Illustrations of art nouveau jewellery

ISBN 1 904537 04 9, Sansom & Company, 270mm x 210mm
112 pages, 43 colour and many b & w illustrations, Softback
£18.50 Published 2003

The Enchanted River: 200 Years of the Royal Watercolour Society
SIMON FENWICK

In the nineteenth century, the Royal Watercolour Society was at the heart of the British artistic establishment. Members included David Cox, Peter De Wint and Samuel Palmer to Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John Singer Sargent. For much of the twentieth century, it was considered out of touch with developments in British art, until changing fashion brought about the re-establishment of the RWS as a significant force in contemporary British painting.

In an engaging narrative, Simon Fenwick records these changing fortunes, and the controversies, personal vendettas and financial crises which characterised much of its history. He tells how Jane Austen visited the 1813 exhibitions looking for portraits of characters from ‘Pride and Prejudice’; how Burne-Jones resigned from the Society in 1870 over complaints about ‘nudities’ in one of his paintings, and how, when Helen Allingham was elected to full membership in 1889, the President predicted that this would lead to ‘lady members shrieking at RWS meetings . and the breaking-up of the Society.‘

There is a full list of members.

ISBN 1 904537 10 3 hardback, ISBN 1 904537 15 4 softback, Sansom & Company, 270mm x 210mm
208pp, Many colour and black & white illustrations
Hardback £35, Softback £24.95 Published 2004

Face to Face: British Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century
PHILIP VANN

Major survey of around 200 British artists working in one of the most demanding and revealing of all artistic genres. Philip Vann&s masterly text covers artists such as Francis Bacon, Gwen John, John Minton, Walter Sickert, Stanley Spencer, Christopher Wood and others.

The core of the book is a detailed examination of 100 British self-portraits in the remarkable Ruth Borchard Collection. The earliest include work by Raymond Coxon, Ithell Colquhoun, Carel Weight and Anne Redpath from the first half of the century, but most are from the 1950s and ´60s, helping evoke an entire period in British art and its myriad developing strands.

All kinds of artistic influences are to be seen here - art school academicism, Camden Town, Expressionism, the Euston Road School, Kitchen Sink, continental Existentialism.

The Collection is full of revelations of once relatively obscure artists who have gone on to become critically appreciated, along with artists of stature who have been unfairly neglected.

Each portrait is accompanied by a text discussing the work in some detail, the artist's background and development and any relevant writings. In all, self-portraits by 220 artists are illustrated, mainly in colour.

ISBN 1 904537 08 1 hardback, ISBN 1 904537 11 1 softback, Sansom & Company, 285 x 245mm
308pp, 200 colour + 40 b&w illustrations
Hardback £45, Softback £29.95 Published 2004

The Golden Dream: A Biography of Thomas Cooper Gotch
PAMELA LOMAX

T C Gotch was the most individualistic member of the Newlyn art colony, a remarkable painter of great vision and founder member of the New English Art Club, where he a great friend of Whistler. But when divisions occurred in the NEAC, he favoured Newlyn realism to the impressionism of the London-based members.

By the mid-1890s, Gotch had found his artistic bearings, refining his realism into a form of 'imaginative symbolism', painting elaborate, intensely detailed and yet dream-like paintings which one critic likened to a blend of Pre-Raphaelitism and the Italian Renaissance. His Pre-Raphaelite Alleluia of 1896 was acquired by the Tate. In the following decades, he painted glowingly textured portraits of children and young women which many consider his finest work.

ISBN 1 904537 21 9, Sansom & Company, 270mm x 210mm
192 pages, Many colour and b & w illustrations, Softback
£24.99 Published 2004

Painting at the Edge: British Art Colonies 1880-1930
EDITOR LAURA NEWTON

The first collective study of Britain's far-flung coastal art colonies in Newlyn, St Ives, Lamorna, Walberswick, Staithes, Cullercoats, Cockburnspath and Kirkcudbright. It comes at a time of renewed interest in the artists who worked in these late-nineteenth-century colonies.

The artists were often linked through mutual friendships made during study at the Parisian ateliers and summers spent in the French art colonies of Grez-sur-Loing or Pont-Aven. Each of the British colonies was sited in a small community dependent on fishing or farming and far enough away from urban centres to retain much of their old customs and way of life.

The authors trace the development of the colonies in the twentieth century, when styles and subjects changed, sometimes sparked by the decline of the fishing industry, the influx of middle-class tourists and the encroachment of industrialisation. Many of the paintings produced at the eight colonies were concerned with rendering a 'truthful' depiction of a particular time and place, and can now be seen as a celebration of various unique aspects of a British way of life that was fast disappearing.

ISBN 1 904537 29 4 hardback, ISBN 2 904537 26 X softback, Sansom & Company, 270mm x 210mm
Colour illustrations throughout, and many archive photographs
Hardback £35, Softback £24.95 Published 2005

A Vision of Landscape: The Art of Glyn Morgan
RONALD BLYTHE

Monograph on the Essex-based 'English Romantic' painter, greatly influenced by his teacher, Cedric Morris. Introduction by Ronald Blythe, with 29 colour reproductions of the artist's work.

250mm x 280mm 32 pp 29 colour illustrations ISBN 1 900178 48 6 Softback £9.99

Alfred Wallis: Primitive
SVEN BERLIN

Reprint of the classic study of the life of the retired fisherman-cum-painter whose 'primitive' depictions of boats, harbours and St Ives houses brought him recognition as one of the most original British artists of the twentieth century.

It tells the story of how Wallis, who started painting only in his ´70s, was 'discovered' in the 1920s by artists Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood and became an icon of the modernist movement in Britain.

Despite being the darling of the cognoscenti, Wallis died in a Penzance workhouse in 1942, and Sven Berlin´s passionate plea for the more sympathetic treatment of the old and infirm, published in Cyril Connolly´s Horizon magazine shortly after Wallis´s death, is reproduced here for the first time.

245mm x 185mm 144pp 10 colour + 37 b & w ISBN 1 900178 18 4 Softback £12.95

Arthur Wragg: Twentieth-century Artist Prophet and Jester
JUDY BROOK AND OTHERS

Arthur Wragg, unlike fellow illustrators David Low and 'Vicky', has been relegated to a footnote in the story of British twentieth-century art. And yet his Psalms for Modern Life was reprinted ten times within three years of being published in 1933.

He was commissioned to design the first cover for the socialist magazine, Tribune, and his trenchant social and political cartoons were in constant demand from national newspaper and magazine editors. Contemporaries - Vera Brittain, Beverley Nichols and Hannen Swaffer among them - considered him a major civilising force. Wragg was also a fine commercial artist, his work ranging from advertisements for such clients as Abdulla Cigarettes between the wars to a series of outstanding record sleeves for Argo/Decca in the 1960/70s.

Judy Brook's memoir of this gentle pacifist reveals the man behind the forgotten reputation - humane, self-doubting, humorous, yet driven by a fierce anger at the social injustice, human folly and commercial greed he saw all around him. It was an anger that produced a series of powerful, searing illustrations for his own books, such as Jesus Wept and Thy Kingdom Come, and commissions for others, including Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, for which he drew on his experience as a prison visitor.

245mm x 185mm 184pp 8 colour + 100 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 900178 87 7 Softback £14.95

Ben Hartley
BERNARD SAMUELS

Ben Hartley, who died in 1996, was an outstandingly gifted painter who sought nothing but obscurity. But he spent his life making pictures of beautiful, vivid colour, humour and a feeling of joy touched with poignancy.

He lived a solitary life in Devon, always struggling with poor health and making little effort to show his work. In the 1970s he was introduced to Bernard Samuels, director of Plymouth Art Centre, who set about exhibiting and selling the work, while respecting the artist's wish for privacy.

Hartley spent the last years of his life in Presteigne, a small town on the Welsh border with Herefordshire. He died in 1996, leaving a bequest of some 900 gouaches and over 300 notebooks full of beautiful drawings.

This is the first monograph on the artist. It covers the brief story of his very simple way of life, devoted to country life and the art of the French post-impressionists, in particular Bonnard and Matisse.

Sixty of the artist's finest gouaches are illustrated in colour, along with many black & white reproductions from his notebooks, showing the sources of the paintings.

276mm x 219mm 152pp 60 colour + 80 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 900178 73 7 Softback £20

Bernard Meninsky
JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR

The first significant study of the life and work of this visionary painter, who was central to the great generation of twentieth-century Anglo-Jewish artists. Always difficult to classify, the dark atmospheric landscapes, the tenderness of his mother and child series, and the magic of the pastoral world of his later years relate both to the spirit of Picasso and to the English Neo-Romantics.

Meninsky's essay, 'The Appreciation of Drawing', is reproduced as an appendix.

230mm x 225mm 144pp 17 colour + 53 b & w ISBN 1 872971 05 9 Hardback £29.95 [Redcliffe]

Britain´s Art Colony by the Sea
DENYS VAL BAKER

New edition, with introductory essay by David Wilkinson, of the classic study of the St Ives art colony in the 1950s.

Until Val Baker's book, surprisingly little had been written about the art of St Ives. Written from the inside, and 'as it happened', this long out-of-print book is an intimate portrait of the artist community in perhaps its most celebrated period, the two decades following the Second World War.

Traditional painting, epitomised by the glowing canvases of John Park and Charles Simpson, still flourished alongside the innovations of the modernist school led by Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth and which brought international recognition.

The crafts, too, featured in Val Baker's book, from Bernard Leach's celebrated pottery on the hill to innumerable smaller studios in St Ives and other locations in west Cornwall, along with locally made furniture, metalwork and textiles.

The book's re-publication today serves as a reminder of those heady days, profiling both the famous and the near-forgotten, set in their historical context by David Wilkinson's introduction which shows how St Ives has continued to flourish, to the point at which art is now as vital as mining and fishing were in the past.

230mm x 180mm 112pp 60 b & w illustrations of artists and their work ISBN 1 900178 13 3 Softback £9.99

Bryan Pearce: The Artist and His Work
JANET AXTEN AND OTHERS

Naïve painter Bryan Pearce is a remarkable phenomenon of the St Ives art scene. Although severely limited in his learning ability since childhood, when phenylketonuria was diagnosed, he was encouraged by his mother Mary to begin painting in his twenties. He has for nearly 50 years been celebrated for his depictions of his home town, its streets, parish church and harbour in oil, conte, pen & ink and pencil.

This book, with more than 120 illustrations in full colour, was published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition. The illustrations show the diverse range of his work and the wide subject matter from the tentative watercolours of the early 1950s, through the unique self-assured oil paintings, including his distinctive 'all-round' studies of the harbours of west Cornwall, to the extraordinarily sophisticated designs and dramatic colours of his most recent conte drawings.

With an introduction by Professor Charles Thomas, the book contains new essays from William Cooper, William Leah and Janet Axten, with a study of the artist's working techniques by Rose Rands. Earlier writings on the artist by Alan Bowness, Peter Lanyon, H.S. (Jim) Ede and William Leach are reproduced, along with an extensive and revealing interview given by the artist's mother in 1973.

280mm x 260mm 144pp 120 colour illustrations
Catalogue raisonne of the oil paintings and extensive bibliography.
ISBN 1 900178 08 7 Hardback £29.95

Charles Debenham's East Anglia
With text by David Buckman

This is a book about the East Anglia which the tourist doesn't see. It is one artist's view of the everyday - a celebration not of cathedrals, historic houses and idyllic landscapes, but of Victorian pubs, corner shops and backyard washing lines.

Charles Debenham is an Essex-based artist with a unique point of view, who for about 40 years has recorded the face of East Anglia. In this book, he talks about how he came to paint each picture and retells stories heard along the way.

210mm x 240mm 112pp 80 colour illustrations, with accompanying commentaries, and a profile of the artist by David Buckman
ISBN 1 900178 92 3 Hardback £9.99

Gaudier-Brzeska: Artist and Myth
ROGER COLE

Roger Cole presents the unvarnished facts about the brilliant young sculptor killed in the first world war, his friendships with Horace Brodzky, Middleton Murry, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and others and his tempestuous relationship with the woman 20 years older than him. He plots Sophie Brzeska's obsession with Henri's memory, her often fraught efforts to secure a lasting place for his work, and her harrowing decline into madness.

The book documents for the first time the ambiguous role played by H.S. 'Jim' Ede, while working at the Tate Gallery and later in life, in promoting the romantic myth of 'The Savage Messiah'. It also tells how Ede acquired Gaudier's work 'for a song' and used it to help fund his home-cum-gallery at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.

230mm x 153mm 296pp 75 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 872971 29 6 Hardback £19.95

George Sweet: Painter, Teacher and Friend
JUDITH GREENBURY

George Sweet, fellow Slade student and friend of the Euston Road painters William Coldstream and Claude Rogers, was an inspiring teacher of art from the late 1930s until 1960. As head of the Fine Art department at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, he brought a wide and cosmopolitan experience to his life classes. Judith Greenbury's memoir is a 'remembrance of things past' of her time as a student in the closing years of the Second World War. She vividly recalls George Sweet's stimulating classes and the flavour of art school life in war-torn Bristol.

George Sweet was a figurative painter in the realistic and painterly Anglo-French tradition, taught by the formidable Slade Professor Henry Tonks in the heady 1920s. Although he showed at the Royal Academy and the RWA, with the occasional one-man show at Browse & Darby (the Saatchi Collection buying three large nude paintings from his last show there, in 1996), Sweet did not seek to promote himself or his work. This profile, with three dozen reproductions of figure, landscape and still-life paintings and drawings by George Sweet, will bring to a wider audience the work of an artist who deserves to be more widely known than a natural reticence allowed in his own life-time.

210mm x 165mm, 134pp 30 colour + 10 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 900178 81 8, Hardback £14.50

Harold Harvey: Painter of Cornwall
KENNETH McCONKEY, PETER RISDON AND PAULINE SHEPPARD

First major study of the most significant Cornish-born artist in the Newlyn art colony which flourished from 1880 to 1930. Kenneth McConkey sets Harvey in the context of the art movements of the time, and shows how his early 'genre' paintings of rustic and marine life, so characteristic of the early Newlyn artists, gradually gave way to a more sophisticated subject matter - Harvey was noted for his sumptuous interiors - and a flatter and more decorative style of painting.

His early work could be compared with that of Stanhope Forbes, while his later paintings show clear affinities with those of fellow painters such as Laura Knight and Dod Procter. The book includes a 'life' of the artist and catalogue raisonne of more than 600 paintings. There are 110 illustrations of Harvey's favoured subjects: the Cornish at work, children at play, and intimate interior scenes and conversation pieces.

235mm x 195mm 176pp 80 colour + 30 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 900178 53 2 Softback £24.99

Henry Lamb: The Artist and his Friends
KEITH CLEMENTS

The man and the artist have been rediscovered from a wealth of unpublished material and extensive interviews. This critical biography fills a significant gap in the life and letters of the period.

Most widely known for his celebrated portrait of Lytton Strachey, Lamb was an enigmatic figure who features in the biographies, memoirs and letters of many of his contemporaries, including Lytton Strachey himself, Virginia Woolf, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Gilbert Spencer, Dora Carrington and Anthony Powell.

230mm x 155mm 306pp 8 colour + 40 b & w illustrations ISBN 0 905459 55 5 Hardback £16.50 [Redcliffe]

Josef Herman´s Drawings and Studies
PETER DAVIES

Josef Herman is best remembered for his ‘dignity of labour’ themes, epitomised by the celebrated studies of Welsh miners and Mediterranean peasants. This new collection of drawings reveals other pre-occupations which might surprise many who thought they knew his work well. They range in time over 50 years, from the Glasgow nudes of the war years, to later mother and child and landscape studies.

The drawings are illuminated by Peter Davies´ commentary, an introductory essay which sets the work in the wider context of a remarkable life's output, and full biographical and bibliographical notes.

230mm x 220mm 112pp 62 drawings ISBN 1 872971 50 4 Hardback £14.95 [Redcliffe]

Liverpool Seen: Post-War Artists in the City
PETER DAVIES

Explores the rich and varied work of Liverpool's post-war painters and sculptors, and the under-rated contribution they have made to the city's vibrant cultural life.

The author shows how they have created art with an unmistakable local dialect but which has addressed the broad stylistic and thematic issues ranging from the painterly abstraction of the 1950s to the figurative revival of the 1980s.

Artists discussed in some detail include Arthur Ballard, Maurice Cockrill, Arthur Dooley,Adrian Henri, Nicholas Horfield, George Mayer-Martin, Sam Walsh and Dick Young.

245mm x 177mm 232pp 12 colour + 75 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 872971 27 X Hardback £19.95 [Redcliffe]

Martin Leman
DAVID BUCKMAN

Martin Leman is one of Britain's most popular painters, whose pictures also have an avid following abroad, notably in America and Japan. Books featuring his work, especially his pictures of cats, have sold over half a million copies. Less well known is that Leman is a painter of witty, stylised nudes, which some believe his finest work, and of mesmerising still lifes.

Unlike many of the so-called primitive or naïve painters, Leman had a thorough artistic training. He was a successful, widely experienced graphic designer, typographer, art director and teacher before becoming a full-time painter. David Buckman tells the story of the versatile man behind the pictures, who talks of his early struggle, his continuing work and his many interests away from the studio.

260mm x 210mm 112pp 80 colour + some b & w illustrations ISBN 1 900178 98 2 Hardback £14.95

Mixed Palette: the painting lives of Frank Ward and Kathleen Walne
DAVID BUCKMAN

Biography of the two artists from their art student days in Ipswich in the 1930s, life in Chelsea either side of the war and their settling in Brighton in the 1960s. There are chapters on Kathleen Walne's time with the charismatic Lucy Wertheim at her gallery in Burlington Gardens, London in 1934, Frank Ward's teaching at Camberwell, and their friendships with fellow-artists in Chelsea, notably Theo Garman and the Epstein family.

235mm x 210mm 88pp 34 colour + 40 b & w ISBN 1 900178 01 X Softback £9.50

Peter Coker
FRANCES SPALDING AND FREDERICK GORE

In the 1950s, Peter Coker was among the group of artists, with John Bratby, Jack Smith, Derrick Greaves and Edward Middleditch, who were dubbed the 'Kitchen Sink Group'. This monograph concentrates on Coker's landscape works, with the aim of raising them from the obscurity into which they have fallen compared with his better documented work.

Published in association with Abbotts Hall Art Gallery.

255mm x 210mm 54pp 16 colour + 27 b & w ISBN 1 872971 81 4 Softback £9.95 [Redcliffe]

Piers and Seaside Towns: An Artist´s Journey
JUDITH GREENBURY

In the late 1990s, artist Judith Greenbury set out on a pilgrimage to capture in watercolour the essence of the best of Britain's piers that have survived the ravages of time and neglect.

This sumptuously illustrated book is the record of that pilgrimage, from Eastbourne to Llandudno, Clevedon to Tenby, Cromer to Blackpool.

250mm x 275mm 96pp 60 colour + 20 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 900178 63 X Hardback £19.95

Poet and Painter: Letters between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash 1910-46
INTRO: ANDREW CAUSLEY

Paul Nash wanted at the start of his career to be a poet as well as a painter. Bottomley was a poet and a discerning collector of paintings and drawings. Their correspondence coincides with the maturing of the modern movement, which stood for the exclusiveness of different forms of artistic expression.

The book bears witness to the staying power of Pre-Raphaelitism and illuminates the ambivalent, relatively uncritical response in England to the modern movement. It questions the need to confront new forms and ideas, the penalties of isolation and most relevant to the two friends - how much does age and personal development influence choices at radical artistic turning points?

230mm x 155mm 296pp 27 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 872971 15 6 Hardback £14.95 [Redcliffe]

Restless Lives: The Bohemian World of Rodrigo and Elinor Moynihan
JOHN MOYNIHAN

A biographical account, seen through their son´s eyes, of the marriage and artistic careers of two Slade students who went on to establish their reputations as important twentieth-century British artists. They counted among their friends and colleagues many of the major artists from the 1930s and the post-war years, including Coldstream, Pasmore and Rogers, John Minton, Francis Bacon and Stanley Spencer, all of whom feature prominently in these pages. The book memorably evokes the world of Slade parties and bohemian life centred on the Colony club.

Rodrigo Moynihan´s experiments in objective abstraction, and some of his most notable portrait commissions, of the young Princess Elizabeth, Prime Minister Clem Attlee, and group portraits of the RCA teaching staff and the directors of Penguin Books, are dealt with in some detail.

200pp 17 colour + 82 b & w illustrations ISBN 1 90017844 3 Hardback £24.99

Singing from the Walls: The Life and Art of Elizabeth Forbes
JUDITH COOK, MELISSA HARDIE AND CHRISTIANA PAYNE

The Newlyn artist Elizabeth Forbes (1859-1912) for long suffered the fate of women artists of her generation, living in the shadow of her husband, Stanhope Forbes. This first major study of her life and work gives a more rounded view of this fine artist and moving spirit in the Newlyn artist colony around the end of the nineteenth century. In her most characteristic work, her studies of children and domestic interiors, she is clearly the match of her male colleagues painting their more grimly realistic depictions of life in the Cornish fishing community. The authors also reveal the wide range of her work and its strong imaginative and poetic element, as in the sumptuous illustrations in her book, King Arthur's Wood.

Elizabeth Forbes also emerges as an accomplished print-maker, encouraged by the flamboyant James McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert. Her early drypoints (she was to abandon the medium when she married) drew inspiration from Whistler's etchings with their spare, elegant effects and consummate manipulation of technique, while many of her paintings could, like Whistler's, be described as symphonies in colour.

Elizabeth was central to the cultural and artistic life of the Newlyn community, running with her husband the celebrated Newlyn School of Painting. She died, at the height of her powers, in her early fifties. She was an enigmatic, appealing personality, whose story was a moving and ultimately a sad one.

255mm x 195mm 240pp 50 colour + 120 b & w illustrations Comprehensive catalogue raisonne
Hardback ISBN 1 900178 72 9 £37.50 Softback ISBN 1 900178 77 X. £24.95

The Affectionate Eye: The Life of Claude Rogers
JENNY PERY

Claude Rogers was an important figure for five decades, both as painter and teacher of art. With Victor Pasmore and William Coldstream, he founded the Euston Road School of Drawing and Painting in 1937, and later taught at Camberwell when the Euston Road painters regrouped after the war. Here, and later at the Slade, he had a considerable influence on the development of figurative painting in Britain.

In his painting, Rogers pursued a rigorous realism based on visual fact. He enjoyed painting the 'unpaintable' - emergency hospital cases, burning stubble fields, landscapes rushing past beneath aeroplane wings.

230mm x 153mm, 256pp 30 colour + 62 b & w ISBN 1 872971 37 7 Hardback £19.95

The Innocent Eye: Primitive and Naïve Artists in Cornwall: Alfred Wallis, Bryan Pearce, Mary Jewels and others
MARION WHYBROW

The author contrasts 'primitive' and 'naïve' painting through the life and work of two of Cornwall's uniquely distinctive artists. With his fiercely unsophisticated paintings the near-illiterate mariner Alfred Wallis became the unlikely darling of the 1930s modernists grouped around Ben Nicholson, while Bryan Pearce's serene, naively crafted depictions of St Ives have also taken their place in the pantheon of twentieth-century British art.

A chapter on the self-taught Mary Jewels throws new light on the life of a much neglected artist, first encouraged by Cedric Morris and later collected by Augustus John.

The survey concludes with brief profiles of a dozen other artists whose individual visions have enriched the life of this celebrated artists' community.

235mm x 185mm 160pp 24 colour +112 b & w ISBN 1 900178 96 6 Softback £14.99

The Journey: The Search for the role of Contemporary Art in Religious and Spiritual Life
SISTER WENDY BECKETT, GARY FABIAN MILLER, RUPERT MARTIN AND OTHERS

Published with the Usher Gallery, Lincoln, The Journey explores the evolving relationship of contemporary art with spiritual thinking. The book documents and illustrates related commissions undertaken by 14 contemporary artists, and includes their personal statements.

The artists illustrated are Roger Ackling, Craigie Aitchison, Stephen Cox, Richard Devereux, Jennifer Durrant, Garry Fabian Miller, Jon Groom, Sue Hilder, Eileen Lawrence, Richard Long, Leonard McComb, Glen Onwin, Peter Randall-Page and Keir Smith.

240mm x 200mm 128pp 18 colour + 44 b & w ISBN 0 948265 99 X Softback £14.95 [Redcliffe]

The Last Days of Hilton: The gouaches of Roger Hilton 1973-75
ADRIAN LEWIS

Short biography and critical assessment of Roger Hilton´s work, in which the author focusses on the rich complexity and cultural significance of the artist's later work in gouache.

In this wide ranging critical re-evaluation, the author considers Hilton's identification with French nineteenth-century models of bohemianism and cultural resistance, his response to 'child art' and his desire to break down the distinctions between art-making and other forms of graphic communication.

225mm x 205mm 96pp 24 colour + 50 b & w ISBN 1 900178 05 2 Softback £11.95

The Magic Shuttle: The Story of Tom Early - St Ives and after
EUNICE CAMPBELL AND OTHERS

The life and work of a remarkable artist of singular vision commemorated in this profile by Eunice Campbell, with contributions from fellow artists in his St Ives years and later.

'A unique painter who leads us through landscapes of fierce intensity and terrifying loneliness without ever seeming to be aware of our wonder at walking within a dream he has made.' - Sven Berlin

245mm x 170mm 80pp 30 colour + b & w illustrations ISBN 1 872971 78 4 Softback £7.50 [Redcliffe]