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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,

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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,

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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,

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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,

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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,

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The St Ives Artists: New Edition

Destination St Ives

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Looking Back, Looking Forward

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

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

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