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Exhibition Review
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious
04/2025 | 1465 | 167
Pages: 396-398
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Reviewer:
Crawford, Lotte (Crawford, Lotte)
Subjects
artists:
Garwood, Tirzah
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Watercolours / Engravings / Needlework
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 19th November 2024–26th May 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Yawning, by Tirzah Garwood. 1928. Wood engraving, 15.2 by 15.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
13. Pages from Untitled (Scrapbook), by Tirzah Garwood. c.1947–49. Paper collage featuring a rejected watercolour by Eric Ravilious, a Pollock’s Toy Shop theatre backdrop and other ephemera, 37 by 50 cm. (Private collection; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
14. Nine cats, by Tirzah Garwood. c.1940s. Drawing, 17 by 17cm. (Private collection; exh. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London).
Short Notice
Lusieri’s mysterious ‘Wooded lake’ identified
02/2025 | 1463 | 167
Pages: 161–163
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Author:
Williams, Dyfri (Williams, Dyfri)
Subjects
artists:
Lusieri, Giovanni Battista
dates:
1800-1809
patrons:
Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin
places:
Belgrade
subjects:
Italian art / Watercolours
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Wooded lake, by Giovanni Battista Lusieri. Watercolour on paper, 57.7 by 69.7 cm. (Broomhall, Fife).
Attributed works:
2. North-west corner of the Parthenon, here attributed to Mary Ruthven. Watercolour on paper, 58 by 95 cm. (Benaki Museum, Athens).
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3. View of the Grand Bendt of Belgrade, by Luigi Mayer. 1788. Watercolour on paper, 44 by 68 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Fig.1, showing the Grand Bendt and Lord Elgin’s summer residence.
Book Review
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 328-330
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1650-1749
places:
Congo / Angola
subjects:
Missionaries / Friars / Italian art / Watercolours
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola By Cécile Fromont. 336 pp. incl. 126 col. + 52 b. & w. ills. (Penn State University Press, University Park, 2022), $109.95. ISBN 978–0– 271–09218–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Kongo Ambassador to Recife, Brazil, from the Libri Picturati, by Albert Eckhout. c.1637– 44. Oil on paper, 30 by 50 cm (Jagiellonian Library, Krakow; MS A 34; fol. 3).
Book Review
Zeichnen im Zeitalter Goethes: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus dem Freien Deutschen Hochstift
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1040-42
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Reviewer:
Kunz, Armin (Kunz, Armin)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Goethe Haus, Frankfurt, Germany
subjects:
Watercolours / Drawings / Books / Prints / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von / German art / Romanticism
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Zeichnen im Zeitalter Goethes: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus dem Freien Deutschen Hochstift Edited by Mareike Hennig and Neela Struck. 312 pp. incl. 186 col. ills. (Hirmer, Munich, 2022), €40. ISBN 978–3–7774–3976–1. | :
Exhibition Review
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 908–911
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Reviewer:
Standring, Timothy J. (Standring, Timothy J.; Standring, T. J.)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, United States
subjects:
American art / Watercolourists / Watercolours
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subjects:
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge 20th May–13th August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Wavy brushstrokes, by Sol LeWitt. 1995. Opaque watercolour on heavy white paper, 163 by 483.5 cm. (Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
23. Mink pond, by Winslow Homer. 1891. Transparent and opaque watercolour over graphite on white paper, 35.2 by 50.8 cm. (Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge).
Attributed works:
24. Untitled, by Mark Rothko. c.1944–45. Transparent and opaque watercolour and ink on paper wrapped around cardboard, 53.6 by 71.3 cm. (Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
Edward Lear: Moment to Moment
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1130-1132
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Reviewer:
Green, Richard (Green, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Lear, Edward
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain
subjects:
Victorian art / Travel / Sketches / Watercolours
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Edward Lear: Moment to Moment Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 9th September–13th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Amada, by Edward Lear. 7.25 a.m. 12th February 1867. Watercolour, pen and brown ink and graphite, 9.2 by 17.8 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; exh. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham).
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2. Santa Maura, by Edward Lear. 6 p.m. 19th April 1863. Watercolour over pen and ink, 21 by 32 cm. (Private collection; exh. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham).
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3. The Forest of Bavella, Corsica, by Edward Lear. 7.10 a.m. 29th April 1868. Pen and ink and watercolour on buff paper, 63.5 by 80 cm. (Private collection; photograph Woolley and Wallis Salerooms Ltd; exh. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham).
Book Review
Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1215-1216
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Reviewer:
Bronkhurst, Judith (Bronkhurst, Judith)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Great Britain
subjects:
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood / Pre-Raphaelite art / Drawings / Watercolours
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours By Christiana Payne, with essays by Fiona Mann and Robert Wilkes. 240 pp. incl. 163 ills. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2021), £25. ISBN 978–1–910807–43–9. | :
Book Review
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 966-967
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Reviewer:
Choi, Kee Il Jr (Choi, Kee Il Jr)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Bertin (1719-93), Henri Léonard Jean-Baptiste
places:
France
subjects:
Chinese art / Chinese architecture / Albums / Watercolours
subjects:
Diplomacy / Missionaries / Collecting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France By John Finlay. 196 pp. incl. 14 col. + 29 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, New York and London, 2020), £120. ISBN 978–1–138–20473–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Maison à double étage, plate 20 from Essai sur l’architecture chinoise (1773). Ink and colour on paper, 35 by 45 cm. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
2. Plate 2 from W. Chambers: Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines and Utensils, London 1757. Engraving, 53 by 36.8 cm. (© British Library Board).
Exhibition Review
The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 745-747
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Reviewer:
Gunn, Ann (Gunn, Ann)
Subjects
artists:
Pars, William / Chandler, Richard / Revett, Nicholas
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Watercolours / Prints
museums and institutions:
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Greece / Turkey
subjects:
Classical / Antiquity / Greek Revival / Society of Dilettanti
subjects:
British art / British architecture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Romance of Ruins: The Search for Ancient Ionia, 1764 Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 19th May–5th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
12. Miletus with the river over the Meander, by William Pars. 1764. Pen and black ink with watercolour and gum arabic on paper, 29.6 by 47.1 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
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13. Study of the Parthenon, South Metope II, by William Pars. 1765–66. Graphite, pen and ink and red-brown wash on paper, 27 by 38.1 cm. (British Museum, London; exh. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
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14. The temple at Sunium, by William Pars. 1765. Pen and brown and black ink and watercolour with some gum arabic on paper, 23.7 by 47.3 mm. (British Museum, London; exh. Sir John Soane’s Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 616-618
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Reviewer:
Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)
Subjects
artists:
Emin, Tracey / Munch, Edvard
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Paintings / Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great Britain
Reviewed Items
museums and institutions:
Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul Royal Academy of Arts, London 18th May–1st August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Crouching nude, by Edvard Munch. 1917–19. Oil on canvas, 70 by 90 cm. (Munch Museum, Oslo; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
2. It – didnt stop – I didnt stop, by Tracey Emin. 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 152 by 183.5 by 3.7 cm. (Xavier Hufkens; © Tracey Emin; DACS 2021; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
3. Black cat, by Tracey Emin. 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 183 by 152 cm. (Private collection; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
4. The death of Marat, by Edvard Munch. 1907. Oil on canvas, 153 by 149 cm. (Munch Museum, Oslo; exh. Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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