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Letter
Forerunners of ‘Heads of the People’
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 884-885
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Author:
McConkey, Kenneth (McConkey, Kenneth)
Subjects
artists:
Bastien-Lepage, Jules / Clausen, George / Gogh, Vincent van / Sickert, Walter / Nicholson, William, 1872-1949
works:
The Graphic / Illustrators / Published illustrations / French art / British art / Social realism / Working Class
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Little London bootblack, by Jules Bastien-Lepage. 1882. Oil on canvas, 132.5 by 89.5 cm. (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Scala Archives).
Attributed works:
2. A field hand (a woman of the fields), by George Clausen. 1883. Oil on canvas, 54.5 by 40 cm. (Private collection; photographed prior to the completion of conservation work).
Book Review
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints
08/2021 | 1421 | 163
Pages: 771-772
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Reviewer:
Korda, Andrea (Korda, Andrea )
Subjects
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van
subjects:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain / Prints / Published illustrations / Visual sources / Dutch art / British art / Visual culture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Popular Art and the Avant-Garde: Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Prints By Vincent Alessi. 234 pp. incl. 10 col. + 40 b. & w. ills. (Monash University Publishing, Clayton, 2020), £30.99. ISBN 978–1–925495–73–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. The poor and money, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Chalk, watercolour and pen and ink on paper, 37.9 by 56.6 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).
Article
The ‘Heads of the People’ in the ‘Graphic’ (1875–83): further influences and legacies
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 586-593
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Author:
Shaw, Samuel (Shaw, Samuel)
Subjects
art literature:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van / Herkomer, Hubert von / Small, William / Hopkins, Arthur / Meadows, Kenny / Nicholson, William, 1872-1949 / Sickert, Walter / Rothenstein, William / Millet, Jean-François, 1814-1875 / Guthrie, James
subjects:
Wood engravings / Influence / Social realism / Working Class
subjects:
British art / Victorian art / Illustrators / Published illustrations
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The brewer’s drayman, by Hubert Herkomer. 1875. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (First published in the Graphic, 20th November 1875; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. The British rough, by William Small. 1875. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (First published in the Graphic, 26th June 1875; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. A Cornish fisher-lad, by Arthur Hopkins. 1883. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (First published in the Graphic, 23rd June 1883; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. The English pauper, by Kenny Meadows. 1840. Engraved by John Orrin Smith. Engraving, 21.2 by 13.2 cm. (From Heads of the People, London 1840–41; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. The dress-maker, by Kenny Meadows. 1840. Engraved by John Orrin Smith. Engraving, 21.2 by 13.2 cm. (From Heads of the People, London 1840–41).
Attributed works:
6. Old Willie: The village worthy, by James Guthrie. 1886. Oil on canvas, 60.8 by 50.8 cm. (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Mamma Mia Poveretta, by Walter Sickert. c.1904. Oil on canvas, 46 by 38.2 cm. (Manchester Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
8. Eli the thatcher, by William Rothenstein. 1913. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 63.3 cm. (Manchester Art Gallery; Bridgeman Images).
Article
Herkomer’s ‘Drawing and engraving on wood’ and Van Gogh
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 584-591
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Author:
Alessi, Vincent (Alessi, Vincent)
Subjects
art literature:
The Graphic / The Illustrated London News, London, Great Britain / Art Journal (art periodical)
artists:
Gogh, Vincent van / Herkomer, Hubert von
artists:
Rappard, Anton van
dates:
1880-1889
patrons:
Gogh, Theo van, 1857-1891
subjects:
Wood engravings / Engravings / Magazines (periodicals) / Illustrators / Published illustrations / Social realism
subjects:
French art / British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Sunday at Chelsea Hospital, by Hubert von Herkomer. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in the Graphic, 18th February 1871; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. A gipsy encampment on Putney Common, by Hubert von Herkomer. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in the Graphic, 18th June 1870; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. The East London Hospital for Children, by Matthew White Ridley. Engraved by Joseph Swain. Wood engraving. (Published in the Illustrated London News, 27th April 1872; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Miner, by Matthew White Ridley. Unknown engraver. Wood engraving. (Published in The Graphic, 15th April 1876; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
5. Old man with a stick, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 48.1 by 25.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation).
Attributed works:
6. At eternity’s gate, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 50 by 34 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation).
Attributed works:
7. Sorrow, by Vincent van Gogh. 1882. Lithograph, 38.9 by 29.2 cm. (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Van Gogh Foundation; Bridgeman Images).