Late Constable / [exhibition curators, Anne Lyles, Per Rumberg ; assisted by Rose Thompson].

Published:: London : Royal Academy of Arts, [2021]
Copyright Date:: ©2021
Physical Description:: 142 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm
Additional Creators:: Lyles, Anne, Rumberg, Per, 1975-, Thompson, Rose (Curator), Constable, John, 1776-1837. Selections, and Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Contents:

Truth to painting: Constable's late work / Anne Lyles -- Majestic darkness: Constable's late drawings / Matthew Hargraves -- Catalogue plates -- Late Constable: a timeline / Annette Wickham and Mark Pomeroy.

Summary:

One of Britain's greatest landscape painters, John Constable (1776-1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His 'six-footers', such as The Hay Wain and The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy's Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career. With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable's late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition.

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Exhibition catalogs

ISBN:

1912520729 (hardcover)
9781912520725 (hardcover)

Note:

First published on the occasion of the exhibition "Late Constable", Royal Academy of Arts, London, 30 October 2021-13 February 2022

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index (pages 140-142).

Endowment Note:

Edward J. and Eleanor Black Nichols Library Endowment Fund

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