De Bray Exhibition Catalogue

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Painting Family: The De Brays
Master Painters of 17th Century Holland

Published to accompany the above exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from July 9th – 5th Oct 2008

160pp with 140 colour reproductions / Softback / Waanders Publishers

ISBN 978-90-400-8447-8 / Friso Lammertse, Pieter Biesboer, Fred Meyer

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Coming of Age Catalogue

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Coming of Age
American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Published to accompany the above exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from March 14 – June 8, 2008

136pp with 85 Illustrations (7 b/w & 78 colour) / Softback / Yale University Press

ISBN 1-885444-33-8 / William C. Agee and Susan C. Faxon

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

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To accompany the current exhibition of Guido Reni's Saint Sebastians, much treasured works of art from some of the most prestigious museums in the world.

The Saint Sebastians from the Dulwich Picture Gallery and Palazzo Rosso in Genoa appear alongside another four examples of the subject from the Pinacoteca Capitolina in Rome, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the Museo de Arte de Ponce (Puerto Rico) and the Auckland Art Gallery.

The catalogue provides details about the provenance of the works, their condition, and the results of technical analysis to further help the direct comparison offered by this exhibition.

Edited by Piero Boccardo and Xavier F Salomon

128 pages; Softback; 170 x 240cm.

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Winslow Homer - Poet of the Sea

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A beautiful publication produced in association with the Terra Foundation to accompany the Winslow Homer exhibition running until 21st May 2006. Through a series of incisive essays by distinguished European and American scholars, Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea offers a fresh exploration of the American master and his life-long preoccupation with the sea.

Waves battering the weathered rocks on a shore, carefree young boys sailing on open waters: Winslow Homer's evocative seascapes are among the most distinctive and powerful in American Art. Rather than following the trends of impressionism that dominated his generation, Homer forged his own path to modernity, developing a distinctly original style that sets him apart from contemporaries. Nowhere is this more evident than in his seascapes, where abstractions and dynamic expression battle the pictorial realism for which he is best known.

Organised by geographic location, this book reveals Homer's keen ability to capture the quintessence of nature, from the raw coast of Maine to the balmy shores of the Caribbean, through his remarkable capacity to adapt materials and techniques to the locale. The works assembled simultaneously capture the unique landscape of their geographic settings, issues of pictorial representation in general, and the universality of man's relationship to the sea.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea organised by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Musee d'Art Americain Giverny / Terra Foundation for American Art; edited by Sophie Levy.

Glossy softback; 151 pages; ISBN 0-932171-50-8; distributed by the University of Chicago Press.

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Changing Face of Childhood

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The Changing Face of Childhood: British Children's Portraits and their Influence in Europe

Softback Catalogue published to accompany the Changing Face of Childhood exhibition held at the Staedel Museum, Frankfurt from 20 April until 15 July 2007, and at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1 August until 4 November 2007.

“Isn’t it a charming and sweet sight at this age to se a lovely child, his eye lively and gay, his look happy and serene, his expression open and laughing, create, while playing, the most serious things, or profoundly busy with the most frivolous games?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Emile or On Education”, 1762

This superb exhibition catalogue is devoted to the development of the children’s portrait in England during the eighteenth century and its dissemination throughout Europe. Portraits of children spending time in an open landscape without adults present reflected an entirely new perception of childhood that had its roots in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke. For the first time children were seen as autonomous individuals upon whom families focused their pride and attention.

Artists represented in this engaging new study include Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Raeburn, Friedrich von Amerling and Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

• Lavishly illustrated with a charming selection of children’s portraits

• Will appeal to anyone interested in art history and the development of portraiture

Edited by Mirjam Neumeister. Essays by Adrian von Buttlar, Hans-Heino Ewers, Jürgen Overhoff, Hanno Schmitt and Iris Wien.

£25.00| ISBN-13: 978 3 8321 7793 1
softback | 215pp | 31.5 x 24 cm | 9.5 x 12.5 in
80+ colour illustrations

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Elsheimer Catalogue

Adam Elsheimer 1578-1610

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Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But, rather like Giorgione, who had died young in Venice exactly 100 years earlier, Elsheimer was influential on the coming century to a degree out of all proportion to his brief career and small oeuvre.

This is the first book on Elsheimer for nearly 30 years, illustrated for the very first time with details in colour that do justice to the extraordinary refinement and wonderful beauty of his inventive compositions, his exquisite, dreamy landscapes and his teeming, tingling backgrounds. His contemporaries (such as Rubens) knew he was a great artist, but until now it has been very difficult to appreciate his paintings in reproductions.

Born in Frankfurt, Elsheimer soon migrated to Rome, which around 1600 was the capital of contemporary art, where the new Baroque style was being forged – both by Caravaggio and native Italians and by visiting northerners such as Elsheimer himself and Rubens. Elsheimer developed a wonderful mastery of light, anticipating Claude, Poussin and a whole host of landscape painters; a dramatic chiaroscuro that gave new depth to his subject-matter - subject-matter that was often itself new (a famous example is his Flight into Egypt set at at night, with the Milky Way depicted for the first time in art in the night sky and a moon reflected romantically in the waters of a lake); and a superb touch that renders his figures uncannily human and homely.

Only 40 paintings by Elsheimer are known today, and a smaller number of drawings. He always worked on a small scale, painting meticulously in oil on a copper ground, but importing into his complex compositions sophisticated devices and effects comparable to those of the greatest commissions of the time.

Influenced himself by Altdorfer, Tintoretto and Bassano (combining northern and Italian roots), Elsheimer in turn became a revered model for both Rubens and Rembrandt, all the French and Flemish painters who visited Rome, and native Italians such as Agostino Tasso and Saraceni.

Accompanying a major exhibition in Frankfurt, Edinburgh and London, the book will become the new standard work on Elsheimer, focusing Elsheimer’s role in one of the major revolutions of Western art.


Rüdiger Klessmann, the world's leading authority on the artist, was formerly director of the Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.
Emily Gordenker is a curator at the National Gallery of Scotland.
Christian Tico Seifert teaches at Berlin University.


ISBN 1 903470 47 3 [978190347047 8]
315 x 240 mm,, cloth/hardback
240 pages, 240 illustrations, 130 in colour

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Rembrandt & Co: Exhibition Catalogue

Uylenburgh & Son: Art and commerce from Rembrandt to De Lairesse 1625-1675

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A stunning publication produced in conjunction with The Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, written by Friso Lammertse and Jaap van der Veen, published by Waanders. This definitive, supporting catalogue for the Rembrandt & Co exhibition provides an insight into the nature and significance of the Uylenburgh enterprise, and into the unique role their art business played in the development of Dutch painting in the seventeenth century.

Hendrick Uylenburgh and his son Gerrit were among the most eminent art dealers in Amsterdam. They dealt in paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, while at the same time running a productive workshop where famous artists worked. Rembrandt, for instance, was associated with the firm from 1631 to 1635, and in those years undertook countless commissions for portraits and other works. And it was at Uylenburgh's that he met his future wife, Saskia Uylenburgh, the art dealer's niece. Rembrandt was followed by other great artists, among them Govert Flinck, Jurgen Ovens and Gerard de Laitresse.

Glossy softback; 324 pages; ISBN 90 400 8252 9; distributed by Waanders Publishers, Zwolle; printed in the Netherlands

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Triumph of Watercolour Catalogue

The Triumph of Watercolour
By Timothy Wilcox

£19.95

The early years of the Royal Watercolour Society 1805-1850

This book marks the Society's bicentenary, following the journey of British watercolour painting from topographical and picturesque views to the challenging, highly coloured virtuoso works of the mid nineteenth century - one of the roller-coaster rides of British art history.

In April 1805 the newly created Society of Painters in Water Colours now known as the Royal Watercolour Society held its first exhibition. After the Royal Academy, the RWS is the oldest artists' exhibiting society in Britain. Its early years saw the rise to prominence of watercolour painting - a golden age of British art and a medium in which Britain produced artists of remarkable genius.

This book brings together the work of its founders, Joshua Cristall, John Varley, W.S. Gilpin, W.H. Pyne and W.F. Wells. It also surveys the period from 1800 to 1851 in considerable detail and illustrates the work of the major watercolourists of the time - Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner, Francis Towne, Peter de Wint, A.V. Copley Fielding, John Linnell, John Sell Cotman and many others.

To celebrate the Royal Society of Watercolours is to celebrate the best of this explosion of talent.

The book accompanied an exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery from 2 February 2005 to 24 April 2005 and subsequently at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Format: 255 x 247 mm, Softback, 165 pages.

ISBN 1898519250 | Retail price £19.95

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