Research Catalog

Title

G.F. Watts : Victorian visionary : highlights from the Watts Gallery collection / Mark Bills and Barbara Bryant ; with contributions by Stephanie Brown, Michael Wheeler and Julia Dudkiewicz.

Author

Bills, Mark.

Publication

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press ; Compton [England] : In association with Watts Gallery, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Bryant, Barbara, 1955-
• Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904
• Guildhall Art Gallery
• Mercer Art Gallery.

Description

xiii, 310 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

"Widely regarded as a genius and as the greatest painter of the Victorian age, George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a ceaseless experimenter throughout his seventy-year career. He was not only the finest and most penetrating portraitist of his age but also a sculptor, landscape painter, and symbolist." "This illustrated book encompasses the work of his entire career, from his early self-portrait in 1834 and first exhibited painting in the Royal Academy in 1837 to his most iconic work, Hope, and the remarkable, almost abstract painting, Sower of the Systems, completed in 1903. In addition, the book includes historic photographs and archival materials, especially concerning the establishment in 1904 of the Watts Picture Gallery in Compton, Surrey, for the permanent exhibition of his art. Essays by leading scholars examine the artist's output, life, reception, and legacy."--Jacket.

Subject

• Watts, George Frederick, 1817-1904 > Criticism and interpretation
• Watts Gallery

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery, London, and the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Museums and Arts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-305) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Isabel Goldsmith -- Introduction / Perdita Hunt -- Watts Gallery: A Temple of Art in Rural England / Mark Bills -- Invention and Reinvention: The Art and Life of G.E Watts / Barbara Bryant -- The Possibility of Watts: Religion and Spirituality in Victorian England / Michael Wheeler -- Watts and Sculpture / Stephanie Brown -- Note on the Catalogue Entries -- Early Life and Career (cats 1-6) -- Travel and Italy 1843-7 (cats 7-11) -- Return to London and the Late 1840s (cats 12-16) -- The 1850s: Little Holland House, Travel, Murals (cats 17-25) -- The 1860s (cats 26-40) -- The 1870s (cats 41-56) -- The 1880s (cats 57-72) -- The Grand Old Man at Compton (cats 73-84) -- Sculpture (cats 85-89) -- Watts Gallery Archive (cats 90-106).

ISBN

• 9780300142570 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0300142579 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780300152944 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 0300152949 (paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008019045

OCLC

• 223872949
• SCSB-10233388

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library