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Arthur Melville

Arthur Melville

By (author) Kenneth McConkey
By (author) Charlotte Topsfield

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  • This is the first monograph on the artist Arthur Melville with commentaries on the individual works
  • The book is the first for over thirty-five years devoted to the extraordinary art of Arthur Melville
  • Brings together lesser-known works from private collections
Full Description
Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of the nineteenth century, yet he avoided categorisation. In 1943 the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson confessed that although they never met, “his work opened up to me the way to free painting – not merely freedom in the use of paint, but freedom of outlook”. This book offers a comprehensive survey of Arthur Melville’s (1855-1904) rich and varied career as artist-adventurer, Orientalist, forerunner of The Glasgow Boys, painter of modern life and re-interpreter of the landscape of Scotland. His travels inspired spectacular watercolours and paintings. This book illustrates around sixty of his works, each with a catalogue entry, and an essay by Kenneth McConkey, which discusses Melville’s art and career.
About the Author
Kenneth McConkey is Professor of Art History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design, the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He has written extensively about late Victorian and Edwardian painting. Charlotte Topsfield is Senior Curator of British Drawings and Prints at the Scottish National Gallery and has a particular interest in watercolours and Scottish drawings.
Specifications
Publisher
National Galleries of Scotland
ISBN
9781906270872
Published
21st Oct 2015
Binding
Paperback / softback
Territory
World
Size
265 mm x 245 mm
Pages
136 Pages
Illustrations
80 color
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