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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]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 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
- Subjects
- Drawing
- Drawing, English
- Landscape drawing, English
- Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788
- New York (State) > New York
- Gainsborough, Thomas 1727-1788
- Drawing > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
- Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788 > Exhibitions
- Drawing, English > 18th century > Exhibitions
- Pierpont Morgan Library Exhibitions
- Landscape drawing, English > 18th century > Exhibitions
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogues
- Pierpont Morgan Library
- Zeichnung
- 1700-1799
- Pierpont Morgan Library (New York) (Perm.)
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogues.
- 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).
- ISBN
- 9781911300458
- 1911300458
- LCCN
- 2018404605
- OCLC
- on1028626345
- 1028626345
- SCSB-9223893
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries