Late Constable
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Late Constable
Royal Academy of Arts, 2021
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, held at Royal Academy of Arts, London, Oct. 30, 2021-Feb. 13, 2022
selected bibliography: p. 136-138
index: p. 140-142
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Forget the rural idylls. This sublime show recasts John Constable as the godfather of the Avant Garde, producing explosive, nightmarish paintings of a vanishing world." – Jonathan Jones, Guardian
One of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, John Constable (1776–1837) was brought up in Dedham Vale, the valley of the River Stour in Suffolk. The eldest son of a wealthy mill owner, he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1800 at the age of 24, and thereafter committed himself to painting nature out of doors. His ‘six-footers’, such as The Hay Wain and The Leaping Horse, were designed to promote landscape as a subject and to stand out in the Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Despite this, he sold few paintings in his lifetime and was elected a Royal Academician late in his career.
With texts by leading authorities on the artist, this handsome book looks at the freedom of Constable’s late works and records his enormous contribution to the English landscape tradition.
Table of Contents
President’s Foreword
Truth to Painting: Constable’s Late Work
Anne Lyles
Majestic Darkness: Constable’s Late Drawings
Matthew Hargraves
Catalogue Plates
Late Constable: A Timeline
Annette Wickham and Mark Pomeroy
Endnotes
Further Reading
Lenders to the Exhibition
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
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