Research Catalog

Title

Ben Nicholson : from the studio / Lee Beard, Louise Campbell, Simon Martin, Edmund de Waal, Louise Weller.

Author

Beard, Lee

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Pallant House Gallery, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Campbell, Louise
• Martin, Simon, 1979-
• De Waal, Edmund
• Weller, Louise
• Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982.
• Pallant House Gallery, host institution.

Description

136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm

Summary

Throughout his career, Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) transformed everyday homewares into extraordinary experiments in abstract art. Nicholson\u0027s studio was filled with objects that inspired him. From patterned mocha-ware jugs and cut glass goblets to spanners, hammers and chisels, these ordinary personal possessions were a source of almost endless inspiration to the artist. This exhibition brings together for the first time Nicholson\u0027s paintings, reliefs, prints and drawings alongside his rarely seen personal possessions and studio tools. It traces how the artist\u0027s style developed, from his early traditional tabletop still lifes to his later abstract works. Still life was at the heart of Nicholson\u0027s artistic practice. Through these humble items, he began to experiment with form and colour. His early works in particular owed inspiration to his father, the painter William Nicholson. The exhibition will also trace the artistic and personal influences on Nicholson\u0027s evolutionary still life style from the 1920s to the 1970s. It will explore his time with Winifred Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, as well as his encounters with other Modernist greats, Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.

Subject

• Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982 > Criticism and interpretation
• Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982 > Exhibitions
• Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982
• Art, British > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Painting, British > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Pallant House Gallery from 26 June to 24 October 2021.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Director\u0027s foreword/Simon Martin -- Ben Nicholson/Edmund de Waal -- Ben Nicholson: from the studio/Louise Weller -- Making and meaning: ideas and process in the work of Ben Nicholson/Lee Beard -- \u0027Architecture and the painter\u0027: the studios of Ben Nicholson/Louise Campbell -- Chronology -- List of works -- List of objects -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781869827779
• 1869827775

LCCN

• 2021425425
• 99989485209

OCLC

• on1257480045
• 1257480045

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries