FEATURES BLOG – Lund Humphries

In Memory of Sir Alan Bowness (1928-2021)

Posted on 08 March 2021

In the early 1960s, Alan Bowness became an informal editorial adviser to Lund Humphries and a regular author, contributing to the development of a growing programme of monographs and catalogues on contemporary artists in the period following the death in 1959 of Lund Humphries chairman Peter Gregory. It was a role in which Alan was to continue for nearly 40 years.

Tags: Alan Bowness, Alan Davie, Bernard Meadows, British Modernism, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, Herbert Read, history of Lund Humphries, Ivon Hitchens, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Modern British Artists, Modern British Sculpture, Peter Gregory, William Scott,

The Art of Richard Eurich : In Conversation with Philippa Bambach and Caroline Martin

Posted on 03 September 2020

To coincide with the much anticipated release of The Art of Richard Eurich by Andrew Lambirth, Philippa Bambach and Caroline Martin talk to Meris Ryan-Goff about their memories of their father Richard Eurich's life and art. [...]

My first memory of Dad’s studio was the “white hut” in the garden, a wooden shed with wide window on one side, and a steep step up into it. He worked here until the 50s, when...

Tags: Andrew Lambirth, figurative painting, landscape painting, Modern British Art, Modern British Artists, painting, Richard Eurich, The Art of Richard Eurich, War Artist,

Creating Henry Moore: The Story of the First Lund Humphries Artist Monograph - by Lucy Myers

Posted on 30 July 2020

In late 1944, while Britain was still at war and paper rationing was in force, Lund Humphries published a large-format, luxuriously produced, beautifully designed monograph on Henry Moore’s sculpture and drawings. In a review a few months later in the Burlington Magazine, Nikolaus Pevsner described it as ‘more ambitious and more complete than any brought out in England for a very long time on the work of one individual sculptor’ and ‘a great achievement of British publishing after five years of shortages and controls’. Patrick Heron in an interview many years later described it as the book which ‘created Henry Moore’.

Tags: An Organic Architecture, Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, artist monographs, artists monograph, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bradford, British art, British Modernism, catalogue raisonne, Eric Humphries, Frank Lloyd Wright, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Kauffer, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Modernism, Peter Gregory, sculpture, Tschichold, Yorkshire,

Travels in the Backlist : Lund Humphries and Scotland - by Nigel Farrow

Posted on 04 July 2020

For the world of the arts, the cancellation of this summer’s Edinburgh Festival is one of the many regrettable consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigel Farrow, chairman of Lund Humphries, seeks some consolation in recalling the arts and the artists that originated in Scotland and her beautiful capital city and have been published under the Lund Humphries imprint.

Tags: Alan Davie, Barbara Rae, Designing for Heritage, Edinburgh, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elizabeth Blackadder, Glasgow School of Art, Joan Eardley, Jock McFadyen, John Byrne, Lund Humphries, Margaret Mellis, Modern British Art, National Gallery of Scotland, Philip Reeves, Royal Scottish Academy, Scotland's Shrine, Scottish art, The Scottish National War Memorial, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham,

Barbara Hepworth and the St Ives Story

Posted on 19 May 2020

On the occasion of the 45^th anniversary of Barbara Hepworth’s death, Lund Humphries Managing Director, Lucy Myers, reflects on the life and art of a pioneering artist and her unique connection to a location which was to shape the history of Modern British Art.

Tags: Art Book Publishing, Barbara Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth Carving and Drawings, Barbara Hepworth The Plasters, British art, history of Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, sculpture, St Ives,

Edward Burra's Dark Side : The Danse Macabre

Posted on 17 May 2020

As part of our focus on Surrealist artists this month, we are sharing an extract from Simon Martin's monograph on Edward Burra.

This important book represents the first full-scale monograph on Edward Burra, positioning the artist - who has been somewhat neglected by histories of modern art because his singular vision was often at odd with the mainstream art world - as a major figure in the history of 20th-century art.

Tags: Art Blog, artist monographs, Book Extract, British art, Edward Burra, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Pallant House, Simon Martin, Surrealism,

The Public and Private Lives of Keith Vaughan

Posted on 06 April 2017

In light of the recently opened Tate exhibition Queer British Art 1861–1967, author Gerard Hastings discusses the experiences of gay artist Keith Vaughan in a period before the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England. Keith Vaughan, Nude...

Tags: british abstraction John Craxton, John Minton, Keith Vaughan, Keith Vaughan Journals, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, queer arts, Tate, Tate Britain,

Christopher Wood: Sophisticated Primitive

Posted on 11 July 2016

‘A rhythmic energy pulses through these pictures.’ Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times Christopher Wood: Sophisticated Primitive has opened at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. This major summer exhibition is the first in 35 years...

Tags: 20th Century Painting, Christopher Wood, Modern British Art,

A Good Moment for Sculpture Books

Posted on 07 March 2016

Lund Humphries author Valerie Holman discusses The Sculpture of Francis Derwent Wood, the final volume in the long-running British Sculptors and Sculpture Series, and considers the role of the artist’s monograph amongst...

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, British Sculptors, British Sculpture, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink, F.E. McWilliam, Francis Derwent Wood, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Kenneth Armitage, Lisson Gallery, Modern British Art, Pangolin, Public Art, Reg Butler, William Turnbull,

The St Ives Artists: New Edition

Posted on 07 March 2016

The best-selling account of the artists and activities that made the small coastal town of St Ives a post-war hub of international modernism will be republished by Lund Humphries in a...

Tags: 20th Century Art, Alfred Wallis, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Christopher Wood, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Naum Gabo, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, St Ives, St Ives Artists, Winifred Nicholson,

Edward Bawden's Scrapbooks - a sneak peek

Posted on 08 February 2016

Painter and illustrator Edward Bawden’s five scrapbooks, assembled over a period of more than 55 years, and housed at The Fry Art Gallery, contain everything from stamps, photographs, cigarette cards,...

Tags: Edward Bawden, Fry Art Gallery, illustration, modern art, Modern British Art, scrapbooks,

John Craxton: 'A Poetic Eye'

Posted on 01 February 2016

Author and curator Ian Collins introduces the work of John Craxton, on display at The Salisbury Museum, 30 January - 7 May 2016. John Craxton (1922-2009) was one of the most...

Tags: John Craxton, modern art, Modern British Art,

David Jones's illustrations for The Town Child's Alphabet

Posted on 01 February 2016

We're delighted to share an extract from the publication: The Art of David Jones: Vision and Memory by Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills, published October 2015. Soldiers returning home after...

Tags: David Jones, Modern British Art,

Winner announced for the The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth competition

Posted on 23 November 2015

Congratulations to Caroline Greene, who has won a copy of the book The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth, by Alan Wilkinson (£40 hardback). To celebrate the Big Draw this October 2015, we...

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Big Draw 2015, drawing, human form, life drawing, modern art, Modern British Art, St Ives, Tate Britain,

Modern Art, After Dark

Posted on 07 October 2015

Your head is coated by a thick soup of black and green paint. A roughly smeared handprint of grey-blue smoke tarnishes your jaw while sharp flecks of orange, pale yellow and white sting your cheeks and eyes. A wave of red threatens to permeate the scene as you look up, enraged, at the dandified artist […]

Tags: Ben Nicholson, British Modernism, Carel Weight, Craigie Aitchison, Graham Sutherland, Guest Post, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Craxton, John Piper, John Ruskin, Julian Bell, Mary Fedden, Modern British Art, Modernism, Nocturnal, Nocturne, Nocturne in Black and Gold, painting, Patrick Heron, Paul Nash, Peter Lanyon, Ruskin, Tom Hammick, Walter Sickert, Whistler,

Destination St Ives

Posted on 28 July 2015

Michael Bird discusses the unique position of the artists’ colony of St Ives within the history of modernist visual art in Britain. To coincide with several major exhibitions of St Ives artists’ work this summer Lund Humphries is offering special discounts on a wide range of publications on artists linked to this important location. For […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Breon O'Casey, British Modernism, Bryan Wynter, Guest Post, Margaret Mellis, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Modernism, Modernist Painting, Naum Gabo, painting, Patrick Heron, Pont Aven, Sandra Blow, St Ives, Summer of St Ives, Tate St Ives, Terry Frost, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, World War II, Worpswede,

Ravilious in Print

Posted on 08 May 2015

Alan Powers, author of Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer, discusses the current display of the artist’s works at Dulwich Picture Gallery and the challenges of accurately reproducing his unique watercolours in print. It would have been convenient if Dulwich Picture Gallery had put on their current exhibition of Eric Ravilious watercolours two years ago. In […]

Tags: Aldeburgh, British art, British Modernism, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Eric Ravilious, Guest Post, Imperial War Museum, IWM, James Russell, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Photoshop, printmaking, Ravilious, Reproduction, War Artist, Watercolour,

Sybil Andrews in Bury St Edmunds

Posted on 24 April 2015

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Hana Leaper discusses Linocut artist Sybil Andrews’ childhood in Bury St Edmunds and the lasting impact of this rural setting in her vibrant modernist prints. Whilst preparing the catalogue essay for my forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Sybil Andrews’ colour linocuts, I was struck by both the prevalence of images from her childhood hometown, Bury St […]

Tags: British Modernism, Bury St Edmunds, Claude Flight, Cyril Power, Grosvenor School, Guest Post, Linocut, Linoprint, London Original Print Fair, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Modernism, Osborne Samuel, printmaking, rural, Sybil Andrews,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Looking Back, Looking Forward

Posted on 19 December 2014

Valerie Holman rounds off a year of Lund Humphries anniversary celebrations with a selection of the company’s highlights and successes of the past 75 years. To celebrate 75 years of art publishing, every month this year a Lund Humphries author has focused on a single ‘landmark’ publication from the firm’s long list, bringing to light the stories behind […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Barbara Rae, Ben Nicholson, Bernard Leach, Bill Woodrow, ceramics, Craigie Aitchison, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elisabeth Frink, Gillian Ayres, Hans Hofmann, Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens, Kasmir Malevich, Limited Editions, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Margaret Mellis, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Modernism, Naum Gabo, Paul Nash, Peter Gregory, Post-War, Prunella Clough, Rose Hilton, Sandra Blow, sculpture, Sheila Fell, Sheila Girling, Tom Hammick, Valerie Holman, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, William Scott,

British Art Now and Then: Celebrating 75 Years of Art-book Publishing

Posted on 04 December 2014

Back in the 1940s, when Britain still had an Empire and Peter Gregory was developing a fledgling art-publishing list at Lund Humphries, contemporary British art was relatively straightforward to define, even if Britishness and avant-garde art sometimes seemed awkward bedfellows. At the Lund Humphries 75th anniversary talk at the ICA on 26th November 2014, the […]

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, British art, British Council, Contemporary British Art, Emma Dexter, ICA, Iwona Blazwick, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries 75th Anniversary, Modern British Art, Nathan Coley, Peter Gregory, Tim Marlow, Whitechapel Gallery, Yinka Shonibare MBE,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – British Sculptors and Sculpture series (1991 – )

Posted on 11 November 2014

Penelope Curtis discusses the British Sculptors and Sculpture series, a series of books jointly published by Lund Humphries and the Henry Moore Foundation, beginning in 1991 that sought to reappraise the works of a range of underappreciated British artists. The Henry Moore Foundation had an historic association with Lund Humphries, given that it was Moore’s publisher of […]

Tags: Austin Wright, Charles Sargeant Jagger, Charles Wheeler, Eric Kennington, Frank Dobson, George Fullard, Gertrude Hermes, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Hubert Dalwood, Kenneth Armitage, Leon Underwood, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Maurice Lambert, Michael Sandle, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Modernism, Penelope Curtis, Philip King, Robert Adams, sculpture, Stephen Cox, Subject/Object, Tate, William Turnbull,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – The Last Romantics: The Romantic tradition in British art: Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, edited by John Christian (1989)

Posted on 22 October 2014

John Hoole cherishes Lund Humphries’ 1989 publication The Last Romantics for its revelation of under explored ties between Pre-Raphaelite and Modern art, and Victorian and 20th-century culture. Twenty five years ago, Lund Humphries published The Last Romantics: The Romantic tradition in British art: Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer, a catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery. […]

Tags: A Paradise Lost: The Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain, Alfred Gilbert, Aubrey Beardsley, Augustus John, Barbican, British art, David Mellor, Edward Burne-Jones, Herbert James Draper, John Hoole, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modern British Art, Neo-Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelite, Romantic, Stanley Spencer,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Ivon Hitchens, edited by Alan Bowness with an essay by T. G. Rosenthal (1973)

Posted on 26 September 2014

Peter Khoroche discusses Lund Humphries’ 1973 book on Ivon Hitchens as the ‘benchmark’ for all future writing on the artist It seems astonishing that until 1973 the only monograph on Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) was the one by Patrick Heron, published in the Penguin Modern Painters series in 1955. His essay, illustrated by 32 plates (only half […]

Tags: Alan Bowness, British Modernism, Ivon Hitchens, landscape painting, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modern British Art, Modernism, Patrick Heron, Peter Khoroche, T.G. Rosenthal,

Promotion through print: The printed works of C.R.W. Nevinson

Posted on 24 September 2014

To coincide with of the publication of Jonathan Black’s new book and a display of printed works at Osborne Samuel, David Boyd Haycock discusses C.R.W. Nevinson’s single-minded pursuit of artistic renown and how his printed works in particular were a vital promotional tool. It has long been my impression that the thing C.R.W. Nevinson wanted most […]

Tags: Augustus John, BLAST, C R W Nevinson The Complete Prints, C. R. W. Nevinson, Centenary, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, David Boyd Haycock, Etching, Fame, Futurism, Guest Post, Jonathan Black, Lithography, Lund Humphries, Marinetti, Mezzotint, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Nevinson, Osborne Samuel, Paul Nash, Severini, Vorticism, War Artist, WW1, Wyndham Lewis,

Countdown to 1st September! Polish your entries for our Emerging Art Writers Competition

Posted on 15 August 2014

Sharpen your pencils. Fire up your laptops. Get in copious quantities of strong coffee. The deadline for our Emerging Art Writers competition is under three weeks away, and the British art world is waiting for your brilliant, considered and exquisitely written contributions to the question ‘What, if anything, is the legacy of British Modernism in […]

Tags: art writer, Art Writing, British art, British Modernism, competition, Emerging Art Writers, Emerging Art Writers Competition, essay, Lund Humphries 75th Anniversary, Lund Humphries 75th birthday, magazine, modern, Modern British Art, Modernism, visual arts, writer, writers,

Book of the Week: W. Barns-Graham: A Studio Life by Lynne Green

Posted on 28 March 2014

For many artists who live into their eighties and nineties, retirement isn’t an option. Unless the frailties of old age curtail it, the creative impulse continues, nourished perhaps by a sense of being free of external expectations and demands, and directed by years of experience. Painter and printmaker Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was born in Edinburgh in […]

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Art First, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Book of the Week, Cornwall, John McEwen, Lund Humphries, Lynne Green, Modern British Art, Naum Gabo, Scottish art, St Ives, W. Barns-Graham: A Studio Life, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in Perspective: The Late Works,

Book of the Week: Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle

Posted on 20 February 2014

‘Art is not a plaything’, wrote painter-poet Isaac Rosenberg in 1912. He was by all accounts a serious, sensitive young man. When Rosenberg was first introduced in 1911 to the group of East End writers and artists known as the ‘Whitechapel Boys’, aspiring writer Joseph Leftwich described him as ‘depressingly self-absorbed … he did not smile once all that first […]

Tags: art publishers, Ben Uri, Book of the Week, C. R. W. Nevinson, David Bomberg, First World War, Gilbert Spencer, Isaac Rosenberg, Jacob Kramer, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Jewish Book Week, Lund Humphries, Mark Gertler, Modern British Art, Modernism, Rachel Dickson, Sarah MacDougall, Siegfried Sassoon, Stanley Spencer, War Artist, war poet, William Roberts,

Celebrating the ICA’s History of Innovation

Posted on 10 February 2014

Tomorrow sees the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) publish a new book documenting its fascinating early history. Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1946-1968, written by art historian Anne Massey and with a foreword by ICA Executive Director Gregor Muir, is the first in-depth examination of the extraordinary period of artistic activity which followed the Institute’s foundation. The early ICA […]

Tags: Anne Massey, Dover Street, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gregory Muir, Herbert Read, history, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Other, Peter Gregory, Pop Art, post-war British art, Richard Hamilton, The Independent Group,

Book of the Week: The Ceramic Art of James Tower by Timothy Wilcox

Posted on 05 February 2014

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It was a precarious business negotiating around James Tower’s exquisite ceramic vessels at the private view of Erskine, Hall & Coe’s exhibition last night, particularly if you were encumbered by a large handbag. But Tower’s distinctive ceramic pieces, at once delicate and substantial, were beautifully displayed within the gallery’s high, bright-white yet quirkily intimate space, and refreshingly free […]

Tags: Art Book Publishers, Book of the Week, ceramics, craft, Erskine Hall & Coe, James Tower, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Sotheby's, Tate Britain, The Ceramic Art of James Tower, Timothy Wilcox,

Book of the Week: Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer by Alan Powers

Posted on 02 December 2013

For an artist who died in 1942 and who very much embodied the spirit of the inter-war period in England, the continuing popularity of Eric Ravilious is sometimes hard to grasp. Indeed, as Ravilious-expert Alan Powers writes in the final chapter of his new book on the artist (my Book of the Week), Ravilious is more popular now than […]

Tags: Alan Powers, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Book of the Week, Eric Ravilious, Eric Ravilious Artist and Designer; Sotheran's, landscape painting, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Pallant House Chichester, Towner Art Gallery, V&A,

In Memory of Sir Anthony Caro, 1924-2013

Posted on 30 October 2013

Anthony Caro, who has died aged 89, was such a fixture in the British art landscape that it’s hard to imagine him no longer there. As testified by the international range of tributes to him which quickly appeared in the press following the announcement of his death last week, he was the grand old man […]

Tags: Annely Juda Fine Art, art book, art book publisher, catalogue raisonne, H.F. Westley Smith, Henry Moore, Julius Bryant, Karen Wilkin, Lund Humphries, Mary Reid, Modern British Art, Other, Paul Moorhouse, sculpture, Sir Anthony Caro,

Book of the Week: The Art of Peter Prendergast by Richard Cork

Posted on 10 September 2013

‘Struggle’ is a word which comes up a lot in The Art of Peter Prendergast, my Book of the Week. From the very beginning life seems to have been a struggle for artist Peter Prendergast. His father suffered the gruelling harshness of a miner’s life in the coal mines of South Wales, and the young Prendergast lived […]

Tags: 2013, Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Book of the Week, Contemporary British Art, Exhibitions, landscape painting, Lund Humphries, Mike Knowles, Modern British Art, North Wales, Oriel Tegfryn Gallery, painting, Peter Prendergast, Richard Cork, The Art of Peter Prendergast,

Book of the Week: Edward Burra by Simon Martin

Posted on 25 July 2013

British artist Edward Burra (1905-76) features surprisingly prominently in the publicity for the Royal Academy’s current exhibition Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940. A number of the reviews of the show feature Burra’s watercolour El Paseo (c.1938), a wonderfully stylised and slightly sinister snapshot of night-time street-life in the Mexican city. I haven’t yet seen the exhibition, but I’m […]

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Book of the Week, Conrad Aiken, Edward Burra, El Paseo, Lund Humphries, Malcolm Lowry, Mary Hoover, Mexican Day of the Dead, Mexico, Mexico: A Revolution in Art, Modern British Art, Royal Academy, Simon Martin,

Book of the Week: Keith Vaughan by Philip Vann and Gerard Hastings

Posted on 18 July 2013

Shortly after I joined Lund Humphries in late 1991, somebody put forward the idea for a series of short, low-priced, illustrated monographs on the key figures in modern British art. It would be a Penguin Modern Painters series for the end of the millennium. Lists of artists were drawn up and authors approached. One of […]

Tags: 20/21 British Art Fair, Aberystwyth, Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Assemblies of Figures, Book of the Week, Figure and Ground, Frances Spalding, Gerard Hastings, Keith Vaughan, Keith Vaughan Figure and Ground, Keith Vaughan Journals, Keith Vaughan photographs, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Osborne Samuel, Penguin Modern Painters series, Philip Vann, Vaughan centenary,

Book of the Week: Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint by Cate Haste

Posted on 05 July 2013

When painter L.S. Lowry died in 1976, his young protégée Sheila Fell confessed to Lowry’s biographer Shelley Rohde: ‘I miss his wit; I miss his humour; I miss him. He was a great humanist and no-one ever seems to mention that. To be a humanist one has to be slightly detached from human beings after […]

Tags: art book, Art Book Publishing, Aspatria, Book of the Week, Cate Haste, Cumberland, Cumbria, L.S. Lowry, landscape painting, Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Sheila Fell, Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint, Tate Britain,

Book of the Week: Barbara Rae, with texts by Gareth Wardell, Andrew Lambirth and Bill Hare

Posted on 11 June 2013

Scottish artist Barbara Rae (CBE RA RSA RSW RGI) is a constant presence in the shop of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, a corner of which is permanently decked out with scarves, plates, bags and jewellery fashioned in her distinctive, bright colour-palette and semi-abstract patterned style. Her books are there too, including the first monograph on […]

Tags: Adam Gallery, Andrew Lambirth, Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Rae, Bill Burns, Bill Hare, Book of the Week, contemporary art, Gareth Wardell, Glasgow School of Art, Joan Eardley, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, painting, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,

Book of the Week: Patrick Caulfield Paintings by Marco Livingstone

Posted on 05 June 2013

In the stairwell leading up to our London office there is a poster reproduction of Patrick Caulfield’s painting After Lunch (1975). It’s an image which I pass several times a day, reflecting on its title as I return to the office with my lunchtime sandwich. What kind of lunch has just been eaten by the painting’s now-absent diners? […]

Tags: After Lunch, Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Book of the Week, Lund Humphries, Marco Livingstone, Modern British Art, painting, Patrick Caulfield, Patrick Caulfield exhibition, Patrick Caulfield Paintings, Tate Britain,

Spotlight on Collections: The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire

Posted on 04 June 2013

The Henry Moore Foundation was established in 1977 with a gift from the internationally renowned sculptor (1898-1986). For seven months of the year, the Foundation opens the doors of Moore’s former estate in rural Hertfordshire to the public. In 2013, the season’s centrepiece is an exhibition which compares Moore’s practice to that of Auguste Rodin […]

Tags: Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Much Hadham, Perry Green, sculpture, Spotlight on Collections,

Commissioning Editor’s Dispatch: Publishing Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped

Posted on 30 May 2013

Earlier this week, Frances Spalding gave a talk at The Hepworth Wakefield entitled A Realist Vision: streets, walls, and cranes in British Art from the 1950s. While I wasn’t able to attend, I’d wager that her lecture featured the work of Prunella Clough – an artist who was attracted to things seen out of the […]

Tags: Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Frances Spalding, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Other, Prunella Clough, The Hepworth Wakefield,

Book of the Week: Paul Nash: Landscape and the Life of Objects by Andrew Causey

Posted on 28 May 2013

How best to summarise the achievement of Paul Nash? There is so much. We think we know him from those iconic paintings of the desolation of the First World War, or the famous Surrealist Landscape from a Dream in the Tate, or his more recognisably English landscapes, or the Second World War painting Totes Meer. But […]

Tags: A Crisis of Brilliance, Andrew Causey, Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, book illustration, Book of the Week, Dulwich Picture Gallery, English landscape painting, First World War, Landscape and the Life of Objects, Landscape from a Dream, landscape painting, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Modernism, Pallant House, Paul Nash, Paul Nash The Clare Neilson Collection, Romanticism, Second World War, Slade School of Art, Surrealism, Tate, Totes Meer, War Artist, wood engraving,

Book of the Week: The Bay Area School by Thomas Williams

Posted on 17 May 2013

On Tuesday evening in London’s West End, a little-known piece of California’s history was quietly unveiled in a Bond Street Gallery. The opening at Thomas Williams Fine Art of the first ever group exhibition of the Bay Area School artists outside the US was an important milestone, for without huge fanfare (and with meticulous scholarly […]

Tags: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Abstract Expressionism, Abstraction, Ansel Adams, Bay Area School, Book of the Week, California, Clement Greenberg, Clyfford Still, David Hockney, David Park, East Coast, Elmer Bischoff, Figuration, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Harold Rosenberg, John Grillo, Leon Kossoff, London School, Lund Humphries, Mark Rothko, Michael Peppiatt, Modern American art, Modern British Art, Richard Diebenkorn, San Francisco, Thomas Williams, Thomas Williams Fine Art, US art, West Coast,

Book of the Week: Ivon Hitchens by Peter Khoroche

Posted on 10 May 2013

You can’t help feeling that English painter Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979) was always somewhat outside the main action. He described his boyhood and youth as ‘quiet and unexciting’, and unlike his contemporary Paul Nash he didn’t fight or serve as a war artist in either of the world wars. He remained on the edge of the group of intellectual Hampstead-based abstractionists in the […]

Tags: Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Ashmolean Museum, Bonham's, Book of the Week, Ivon Hitchens, landscape painting, Looking a the View, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Paul Nash, Peter Khoroche, Tate Britain,

Exhibitions Round-Up: May 2013

Posted on 03 May 2013

Joan Eardley at Portland Gallery, London, until 17 May Lynn Chadwick: Evolution in Sculpture at Abbot Hall in Kendal and Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House in Bowness-on-Windermere until 15 June The Cutting Edge of Modernity: The Grosvenor School Linocuts at Osborne Samuel, London until 11 May Julian Trevelyan at Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames, until 1 […]

Tags: Abbot Hall, Alan Cristea Gallery, Blackwell, Bohun Gallery, Cyril Power, Displaced Visions, Exhibitions, Exhibitions Round-Up, Joan Eardley, Julian Trevelyan, linocuts, Lund Humphries, Lynn Chadwick, Mary Fedden, May 2013, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Osborne Samuel, Portland Gallery, Richard Green, richard woods, The Israel Museum,

Book of the Week: The St Ives Artists by Michael Bird

Posted on 03 May 2013

As spring, sun and long, light days finally arrive in England in time for a bank-holiday week-end, city-dwellers take off westwards in search of surf, sand and wide open skies. To mark the arrival of a new season of holidaymakers in Cornwall, Belgrave St Ives launch their annual St Ives exhibition 2013 this week-end. It’s packed full of work by the group of […]

Tags: Adrian Heath, Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Hepworth, Belgrave St Ives, Book of the Week, Breon O'Casey, Bryan Wynter, Cornwall, Lund Humphries, Margaret Mellis, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, Sandra Blow, St Ives, St Ives art, Tate St Ives, Terry Frost, The St Ives Artists, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, William Scott,

For One Week Only! Modern Brits Exhibition at Sims Reed

Posted on 30 April 2013

For this week only, Sims Reed bookshop is showing a series of limited-edition prints by great British artists including Albert Irvin, Terry Frost, Peter Blake and Barbara Rae – many of which have not been exhibited before. These original prints are signed by the artists and come packaged in beautiful slipcases, each with a Lund Humphries monograph. […]

Tags: Abigail McLellan, Albert Irvin, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Rae, Contemporary British Art, Exhibitions, Jeremy Gardiner, London Original Print Fair, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, Other, Peter Blake, printmaking, Sims Reed, Terry Frost,

Book of the Week: Cyril Power Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue by Philip Vann

Posted on 25 April 2013

Cyril Power stole the show at Bonham’s last week when, in one of those fairy-tale discoveries-in-the-attic, his linocut Speed Trial (c.1932, edition of 60), which had hung on the seller’s wall unidentified for 25 years, sold for a staggering £73,250. In a nostalgic nod to the 150th anniversary of the Underground, Power’s Futuristic 1930s prints of Tube stations […]

Tags: Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Bonham's, Book of the Week, Cyril Power, Cyril Power Linocuts, Grosvenor School artists, limited edition print, linocuts, London Original Print Fair, London Underground, London Underground 150th birthday, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Modern British Prints, printmaking, Royal Academician, Sims Reed,

‘Darkness, Light, Dreaming, Waking’: Launch Report

Posted on 19 April 2013

Last night saw the launch of Philip Trevelyan’s new monograph on his father, celebrated British painter and printmaker Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988). The event took place in the Fine Rooms at the Royal Academy of Arts on London’s Picadilly. The fabulous surroundings and the opportunity to see various works by Trevelyan, courtesy of Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, […]

Tags: Bohun Gallery, Durham Wharf, Julian Trevelyan, Launch, Lund Humphries, Mary Fedden, Mel Gooding, Modern British Art, Other, Philip Trevelyan, Picture Language, Royal Academy,

Book of the Week: Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language by Philip Trevelyan

Posted on 17 April 2013

Julian Trevelyan: Picture Language – Philip Trevelyan’s new book on his artist father, and my Book of the Week – opens with an insightful Foreword by art critic Mel Gooding, who commends the book for bringing out as never before ‘the double-sided aspects of Trevelyan’s artistic impulses’. There is indeed a fascinating duality in the art of Julian Trevelyan […]

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In Memory of Alan Bartram, 1932-2013: Writer, Book Designer and Artist

Posted on 12 April 2013

Alan Bartram, who has died at the age of 80, was associated with Lund Humphries for many years, initially as author and designer of a series of books on typography and lettering, and from the late 1980s as graphic designer of many of our exhibition catalogues, artist monographs and catalogues raisonnés. At his funeral, I […]

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Book of the Week: Lynn Chadwick Sculptor by Dennis Farr and Eva Chadwick

Posted on 09 April 2013

The Year of Modern British Sculpture continues this month with an interesting confluence of sculptor-anniversaries. Ten years ago, in April 2003, British sculptor Lynn Chadwick died at his home in Gloucestershire, having enjoyed a long and successful career. ‘A great late 20th century sculptor … the successor to Henry Moore’, wrote Terence Mullaly in the Guardian‘s obituary. In […]

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