Features Blog

Introducing the new Lund Humphries identity

Posted on 31 July 2017

Social Housing in Vienna & London: Two Traditions

Posted on 22 June 2017

Tags: Liane Lefaivre, London housing, Mark Swenarton, Peter Barber, Social Housing, Viennese architecture,

Howard Hodgkin: Painting India

Posted on 05 June 2017

Tags: British Art, Howard Hodgkin, Painting India,

Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner

Posted on 07 May 2017

Tags: modernist architecture, Viennese architecture, Viennese art,

‘Designing the V&A’: some reflections by the author

Posted on 04 May 2017

Tags: art, Arts and crafts, Design, Edward Burne-Jones, Edwardian history, interior design, Lord Leighton, Victorian history, William Morris,

America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting

Posted on 04 May 2017

Tags: eighteenth-century french art, french art, neoclassical, rococo,

Frank Lloyd Wright 150th anniversary

Posted on 27 April 2017

Tags: Falling water, Frank Lloyd Wright, organic architecture, Taliesin,

The Public and Private Lives of Keith Vaughan

Posted on 06 April 2017

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

On editing Paul Nash’s Outline

Posted on 17 March 2017

Design for the Corporate World

Posted on 15 March 2017

Tags: Charles and Ray Eames, corporate design, Design, design classics, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, Eliot Noyes, graphic design, Ivan Chermayeff, logo design, logos, Marcello Nizzoli, mid-century modern, Paul Rand, product design,

Eduardo Paolozzi Image Gallery

Posted on 02 February 2017

Tags: British Art, Eduardo Paolozzi, Independent Group, Judith Collins, Whitechapel,

Johnston & Gill: Very British Types

Posted on 10 November 2016

Maggi Hambling: Touch

Posted on 13 July 2016

Christopher Wood: Sophisticated Primitive

Posted on 11 July 2016

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

Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

Posted on 11 July 2016

Tags: Alan Powers, Edward Ardizzone, House of Illustration, Illustration,

Hubert Robert: A Visionary Painter

Posted on 09 May 2016

Tags: Hubert Robert,

A Good Moment for Sculpture Books

Posted on 07 March 2016

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

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,

Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum

Posted on 12 February 2016

Tags: Black History, Black History Month, National Maritime Museum, Slavery,

Edward Bawden's Scrapbooks - a sneak peek

Posted on 08 February 2016

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

John Craxton: 'A Poetic Eye'

Posted on 01 February 2016

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

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

Posted on 01 February 2016

Tags: David Jones, Modern British Art,

Winner announced for the The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth competition

Posted on 23 November 2015

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

Barbara Hepworth Drawing Competition

Posted on 21 October 2015

We are delighted to have partnered with the NEAC Drawing School to offer you a drawing competition inspired by the work of Barbara Hepworth. The prize will be a copy of the newly published book: The Drawings of Barbara Hepworth by Alan Wilkinson, published by Lund Humphries. £40 Hardback. Info: Create an original drawing inspired […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Big Draw 2015, Drawing, Human Figure, Modern British Artists, Spotlight on Collections, St Ives,

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,

Symposium: ART & COLLABORATION

Posted on 28 September 2015

Sonia Boyce | Joy Gregory | Jacob Jari Samson Kambalu | Peterson Kamwathi | Atta Kwami Sunday 11th October 2015 11am – 6.30pm Djam lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Free This one-day symposium brings together six leading artists in conversation about the role of collaboration in their […]

Tags: African Art, Atta Kwami, Collaboration, Contemporary African Art, Jacob Jari, Joy Gregory, Making Art in Africa, Other, Peterson Kamwathi, Polly Savage, Samson Kambalu, Sonia Boyce,

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,

Independent Bookshop Week: Nominate your favourite UK art bookshop and win a signed book!

Posted on 23 June 2015

Once upon a time, London’s Charing Cross Road was a haven of specialist art bookshops. Famously there was Zwemmer’s, celebrated from the 1930s as one of the world’s leading art bookshops and a meeting-point for a fascinating cross-section of the art world. Zwemmer’s spawned several branches nearby before closing in the early years of the new millennium. And then there was Shipley, a much-loved […]

Tags: Art, art book, art bookshops, Charing Cross Road, Competition, Independent Bookshop Week, Shipley, Zwemmer's,

Hans Hofmann: Cataloguing the Abstract

Posted on 09 June 2015

To coincide with a new exhibition of the artist’s works at Crane Kalman Gallery in London this June, Juliana D. Kreinik, contributing editor for the Hans Hofmann Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, recalls enlightening discoveries of vital information in Hofmann’s handwriten ledgers and the great effort and greater reward of a monumental research publication. Catalogue raisonné […]

Tags: Abstract Expressionism, action painting, catalogue raisonne, Charles and Ray Eames, Crane Kalman, drip painting, Guest Post, Hans Hofmann, Hans Hofmann Trust, Jackson Pollock, ledgers, Modernism, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, research publication,

Art 15 Competition: Win a signed copy of Big Bucks

Posted on 20 May 2015

To celebrate Georgina Adam’s talk ’10 Things You Didn’t Know About…The Art Market Today’ at the Art15 Fair this Thursday, we have two signed copies of her acclaimed book Big Bucks: The Explosion of the Art Market in the 21st Century to give away. Email competition@lundhumphries.com to sign up for our newsletter and enter, with […]

Tags: Art 15, Art Fair, Art Market, Big Bucks, Competition, Georgina Adam, Signed Book,

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,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – William Scott: Paintings, edited and introduced by Alan Bowness, with contributions from Michel Ragon and Werner Schmalenbach (1964)

Posted on 26 August 2014

Frances Spalding discusses the modern ‘cool’ of Lund Humphries’ 1960s monograph on William Scott and reflects on the cementing of the artist’s style in the preceding decade. This monograph followed the format laid down by the first Lund Humphries monograph in 1944, but its style belongs very definitely to the 1960s. The typeface chosen is […]

Tags: 1950s, 1960s, Abstract Expressionism, Abstraction, Alan Bowness, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Lund Humphries 75th Anniversary, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Mark Rothko, Modernism, Norbert Lynton, Still-Life, Tate gallery, Tonal Painting, US art, Willem De Kooning, William Scott,

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,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Ben Nicholson Volumes 1 & 2, with introductions by Herbert Read (1948 & 1956)

Posted on 01 August 2014

Benedict Read discusses the two books written by his father Herbert Read on the artist Ben Nicholson in 1948 and 1956 and the wider impact of Lund Humphries’ monographs in this period. The Lund Humphries monographs started with Henry Moore in 1944. This set a format of listing works, plentiful illustrations, an artist’s own writings […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Ben Nicholson volumes 1 and 2, Benedict Read, British Modernism, Hampstead, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modernist design, Naum Gabo, Patrick Heron, Paul Nash, Peter Gregory, St Ives,

In Memory of Andrew Causey (1940-2014)

Posted on 04 July 2014

We are sad to report the death last week-end of Andrew Causey, author of three Lund Humphries books and a highly regarded historian of modern British art. Andrew was one of our most meticulous, professional, courteous and unassuming authors.  His writing on art was poised, precise, often challenging and always hugely enlightening. His book on […]

Tags: Andrew Causey, British art, Lund Humphries, Other, Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, The Drawings of Henry Moore,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings, with an Introduction by Herbert Read (1952)

Posted on 25 June 2014

Frances Guy considers the contributions of Barbara Hepworth and Herbert Read to a book which helped to establish Hepworth’s reputation as a key British artist. This was the first major monograph to be published on Barbara Hepworth, at the start of a decade which saw her career develop on the international stage and her sculpture […]

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, British Sculptors and Sculpture, Circle, Constantin Brancusi, Direct Carving, Festival of Britain, Henry Moore, Herbert Read, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Photography, sculpture, Unit One,

Emerging Art Writers Competition Launched

Posted on 06 June 2014

We are very excited to announce the launch of our Emerging Art Writers Competition, in association with Apollo, the International Art Magazine. It is a fantastic opportunity for aspiring art writers to showcase their work to movers and shakers from the British art world. To enter, write an essay of between 1,500 and 2,500 words which answers the question: What, if anything, […]

Tags: Apollo, Apollo Magazine, Art, art book, art writer, art writers, British art, British Modernism, competition, contemporary, essay, ICA, magazine, modern, Other, Pallant House, writer, writers,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Typographica, edited by Herbert Spencer (1949-67)

Posted on 20 May 2014

Rick Poynor explains the importance of the influential typographic-design journal Typographica, published by Lund Humphries over an 18-year period.  Typographica, published by Lund Humphries in two series from 1949 to 1967, is one of the most outstanding visual arts magazines of the post-war years. The brainchild of a 25-year-old typographer, Herbert Spencer (1924-2002), it was […]

Tags: Dieter Roth, Eric Gregory, Eye magazine, graphic design, Herbert Spencer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Berger, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Modernist design, new typography, Photography, post-war British art, printing history, Rick Poynor, Stefan Themerson, typographic design, Typographica, typography, visual arts, Walker Evans,

Book of the Week: Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself by Andrew Causey

Posted on 07 April 2014

Stanley Spencer’s paintings aren’t always easy to like, but they are hard to ignore. As the sub-title of Andrew Causey’s new book (my Book of the Week) implies, Spencer’s paintings don’t set out to please, but rather to reflect the artist’s own singular internal vision. ‘Stanley Spencer explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists […]

Tags: Andrew Causey, Art, art book, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Book of the Week, Burghclere murals, Cookham, Fiona MacCarthy, First World War, Lund Humphries, Pallant House, Paradise Regained: Spencer in the Aftermath of the First World War, Stanley Spencer, Stanley Spencer Gallery, Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself, Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Paul Nash: paintings, drawings and illustrations, edited by Margot Eates, with essays by Herbert Read, John Rothenstein, E.H. Ramsden and Philip James (1948)

Posted on 02 April 2014

Andrew Causey describes Paul Nash’s extensive involvement in preparing the book on his work which was in the end published posthumously by Lund Humphries in 1948. Paul Nash had been preparing for at least two years before his death in 1946 material for the book which Lund Humphries would publish in due course.  He collected black-and-white prints […]

Tags: Andrew Causey, British Modernism, Drawings, First World War, Herbert Read, John Rothenstein, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Outline, Paul Nash, Second World War, Tate, War Artist,

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,

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, with an Introduction by Herbert Read (1944)

Posted on 19 March 2014

Former Head of Collections and Exhibitions at The Henry Moore Foundation, David Mitchinson, describes the importance of the comprehensive book on Henry Moore’s work which was published by Lund Humphries in 1944. The triumvirate of sculptor Henry Moore, art historian Herbert Read and printer/publisher Peter Gregory was one based on friendship, Yorkshire, and mutual respect. Read had […]

Tags: catalogue raisonne, David Mitchinson, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, Herbert Read, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Peter Gregory, sculpture,

The Outsider as Witness: Displaced Visions by Nissan Perez and Grim Glory by Ernestine Carter

Posted on 14 March 2014

In his Lund Humphries Landmark post on Ernestine Carter’s Grim Glory (1941), Antony Penrose describes the efforts of his mother, Lee Miller, and a number of other prominent photographers to raise US consciousness about the hardships and the horrors of the London Blitz. Miller, he explains, had come to the UK from New York in 1939, having begun […]

Tags: Antony Penrose, Bill Brandt, Displaced Visions, Emigre Photographers of the 20th Century, Ernestine Carter, Grim Glory, Immigration, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Lee Miller, London Blitz, migration, Modernism, Nissan Perez, Other, Outsider, Photography, Roland Penrose, Second World War, Witness,