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Thomas Gainsborough : experiments in drawing

Title

Thomas Gainsborough : experiments in drawing / Marco Simone Bolzoni.

Author

Bolzoni, Marco Simone

Publication

New York : The Morgan Library & Museum ; London : In association with Paul Holberton Publishing, [2018]
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84 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 21 cm

Summary

William Jackson, one of Gainsborough's closest friends and biographers, noted that if he had 'to rest his [Gainsborough] reputation on one point, it should be on his Drawings'. Gainsborough was indeed a draftsman of rare talent and creativity, and his experiments in drawing inspired an entire generation of British artists, from John Constable (1776-1837) to J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851). When not occupied with his lucrative portrait business, Gainsborough devoted much of his time to his true passion, the depiction of landscapes, and more than 600 of the artist's approximately 800 surviving drawings depict the British countryside. Like most artists from his generation, Gainsborough did not draw directly from nature but instead re-invented landscape 'of his own brain,' laying out on his work table stones, branches, leaves, and soil of various colors. His passion for drawing extended to technical experimentation. Gainsborough mixed different kind of media and invented recipes to make drawings in his own personal fashion: he would sometimes immerse his drawing paper in milk, or varnish it to give his landscapes a lucent tint.

Alternative Title

Experiments in drawing

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, May 11-August 19, 2018.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-84).

Call Number

JQD 18-514

ISBN

9781911300458
1911300458

LCCN

2018404605

OCLC

1028626345

Author

Bolzoni, Marco Simone, author. Author

Title

Thomas Gainsborough : experiments in drawing / Marco Simone Bolzoni.

Publisher

New York : The Morgan Library & Museum ; London : In association with Paul Holberton Publishing, [2018]

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Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-84).

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Added Author

Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, artist.

Pierpont Morgan Library, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQD 18-514

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