True to Life - British Realist Painting in the 1920s and 1930s

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2017. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2017 reprint. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. The half-title has the discreet blindstamp of the Offer Waterman Gallery to the lower right corner with a number neatly written in blue to the centre. Binding sound. 144pp. Many colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh from 1 July to 29 October, 2017. It focuses on more than 90 works by an almost forgotten generation of artists and explores the figurative tradition in British art between the two World Wars. It concentrates on scrupulously detailed realist painting, part of a world-wide trend at the time. It features work by more than 50 artists, including Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Meredith Frampton, Winifred Knights and James Cowie..