National Galleries of Scotland

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

William Buchanan

James Craig Annan

The Art of the Photographer J. Craig Annan, 1864-1946

Michael Ashley Havinden

Michael Havinden

Dean Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Under the professional name of 'Ashley', Ashely Havinden (1903-1973) was one of the most successful advertising artists and designers working in Britain in the twentieth century. He made his reputation at Crawfords, the progressive advertising agency in London, and as art director he was responsible for many innovative and stylish campaigns for clients as diverse as Chrysler Motors, Eno's Fruit Salt, Martini and the world-famous Simpson Piccadilly. In the 1930s, he also made a name for himself as a designer of rugs and fabrics and as an abstract painter. Marking the centenary of his birth, this is the first book to be published on Ashley's work and highlights the diversity of his long and influential career.

Ashley Havinden

Advertising and the Artist

Martin Hammer

Combining the traditional genres of the nude and portraiture, the naked portrait represents a fascinating phenomenon in art and photography of the past one hundred years. Martin Hammer makes sense of such a rich vein of visual material by examining works in many different media by diverse artists. This study seeks to explain naked portraiture as a symptom of the wider contemporary cultural impulse to reveal what is hidden beneath the surface facade, and addresses how and why the genre of portraiture has been radically extended and reinvented within the art of the last hundred years.

The Naked Portrait, 1900-2007

Sir Roland Penrose

Lee Miller

This book offers an unprecedented insight into one of the most fascinating artistic relationships of the 20th century.

The Surrealist and the Photographer

Roland Penrose, Lee Miller

Michael Clarke

Claude Monet

Richard Thomson

Monet was the most remarkable of all the Impressionist landscape painters. And perhaps at no point in his career was his work more varied than in the years between 1878 and 1883. During this time he produced some 300 paintings, many of them are amongst his finest works. His painting encompassed motifs of village and river, cliff and wave, as well as expressive portraits and rich still-lifes. For much of this period Monet lived at Vétheuil, a village on the river Seine between Paris and the English Channel. In this tranquil setting, Monet painted in all seasons. He tackled orchards in spring, expansive fields of corn, and the bare trees of the winter months. Among his most memorable paintings are those he made of the ice-floes on the Seine during the great thaw of 1880. On the Normandy coast he painted views straight out to sea, as well as vistas of the beach and the sublime presence of the great cliffs. Monet: the Seine and the Sea shows Monet the innovator, the daring Impressionist challenging his brush to record the shifting moods of nature, as well as Monet the competitor, taking on the example of previous painters and reshaping their motifs in his vigorously personal painting. 150 colour illustrations

The Seine and the Sea, 1878-1883

Monet

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