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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,

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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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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,

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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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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,

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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,

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Lund Humphries Landmarks: An Organic Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright (1939)

Posted on 29 January 2014

In May 1939, nearly 75 years ago, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the RIBA. The meetings were hailed at the time as ‘perhaps the most remarkable events of recent architectural affairs in England. No architectural speaker in London has ever in living memory gathered such audiences.’ With great […]

Tags: Alan Powers, An Organic Architecture, Andrew Causey, Anthony Bell, Anthony Penrose, Architectural Association, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Hepworth Carving and Drawings, Ben Nicholson, Ben Read, David Mitchinson, Eric Gregory, Focus journal, Frances Spalding, Frank Lloyd Wright, Grim Glory, Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, history of architecture, history of Lund Humphries, Ivon Hitchens, Jane Drew, John Hoole, Lund Humphries, Lund Humphries 75th birthday, Lund Humphries Landmarks, Maxwell Fry, Modernist architecture, organic architecture, Paul Nash, Peter Gregory, Peter Khoroche, RIBA, RIBA Journal, Rick Poynor, Sir George Watson Chair, Sophie Bowness, Sulgrave Manor Board, The Last Romantics, The Penrose Annual, Typographica, Valerie Holman, Wells Coates, William Scott Paintings,

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Exhibitions Round-Up: Summer 2013

Posted on 19 July 2013

Had enough of the great British heat wave already? Cool off at one of this summer’s great British art shows… Like Wimbledon and the Proms, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, now in its 245th year, has long since gained the status of a British institution. Which is not to say that all of the 1000 plus […]

Tags: Anthony Caro, C. R. W. Nevinson, Christopher Wood, Crisis of Brilliance, David Bomberg, Dora Carrington, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Exhibitions, Exhibitions Round-Up, Kettle's Yard, Laura Knight, Lowry, Lund Humphries, Mark Gertler, Museums, National Portrait Gallery, Paul Nash, Royal Academy, Stanley Spencer, Summer 2013, Summer Exhibition, Tate, Tate Britain, World War One,

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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,

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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,

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Book of the Week: Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters Edited by Sophie Bowness

Posted on 26 February 2013

When Barbara Hepworth died in a studio fire in St Ives in May 1975, it seemed to mark the end of a particular moment in Modern British Art. Michael Bird writes eloquently at the end of The St Ives Artists about ‘the Poetry of Departures’: Bryan Wynter and Roger Hilton had died earlier that year, […]

Tags: Alan Bowness, Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Barbara Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth Hospital Drawings, Book of the Week, Bryan Wynter, Cornwall, Festival of Britain, Lund Humphries, Michael Bird, Modern British Art, Modern British Sculpture, Pallant House Chichester, Paul Nash, Roger Hilton, Sophie Bowness, St Ives, the Hepworth Estate, The Hepworth Wakefield, The St Ives Artists, Wakefield,

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Book of the Week: The Art of Jeremy Gardiner: Unfolding Landscape

Posted on 04 February 2013

It is shaping up to be quite a spring for British artist Jeremy Gardiner (b.1957). His new exhibition Exploring the Elemental opens at Paisnel Gallery, London tomorrow evening. Then on Sunday 9 February he discusses his work at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, before hanging his comprehensive retrospective exhibition Unfolding Landscape at Kings Place Gallery […]

Tags: Art, Art Book Publishers, Art Book Publishing, Book of the Week, Contemporary British Art, Dorset, English landscape painting, Jeremy Gardiner, John Tunnard, Kings Place Gallery, Lake District, London, London Art Fair, Lund Humphries, Modern British Art, Paisnel Gallery, Paul Nash, Royal Western Academy, St Ives,

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Modern Art, After Dark

Lund Humphries Landmarks – Looking Back, Looking Forward

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

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

In Memory of Andrew Causey (1940-2014)

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)

Lund Humphries Landmarks: An Organic Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright (1939)

Exhibitions Round-Up: Summer 2013

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

Book of the Week: Ivon Hitchens by Peter Khoroche

Book of the Week: Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters Edited by Sophie Bowness

Book of the Week: The Art of Jeremy Gardiner: Unfolding Landscape

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