English Watercolors: An Introduction

New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1988. Cloth, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. First published, 1950. Revised. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. CONTENTS: The origins of English watercolour painting: Paul Sandby, J. R. Cozens, and the eighteenth-century watercolour painters; The early nineteenth century: Girtin, Turner, Cotman, Cox, De Wint, Constable, Bonington, and the exhibiting societies; The later Victorians and the moderns: J. F. Lewis, Rossetti, Whistler, Wyndham Lewis, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland. "Graham Reynolds OBE was for many years Keeper of Paintings and of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. He has had a distinguished career caring for and writing about British art and has produced some twenty books, including English Portrait Miniatures, Constable, the Natural Painter, Victorian Painting, and Turner. He is on the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (in Britain), and has won the prestigious Mitchell Prize for the History of Art (1984) for his catalogue raisonne of The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable." - Publisher.. 2nd. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.