Great British Paintings from American Collections: Holbein to Hockney

ISBN: 0300092229

Author: Warner, Dr. Malcolm

Condition: New

Outside Britain itself, the richest holdings of British art are found in American collections. This extraordinary presentation of some 85 works pays tribute to this strength of American collecting, while offering a fresh and engaging account of the history of painting in Britain from the sixteenth century to the present. The selection is drawn from collections from around the United States, both public and private, and includes spectacular pictures from the Yale Center for British Art and the Huntington Art Collections in California--the two leading collections of British art in America. Among the highlights are such masterpieces as Sir Anthony Van Dycks portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria with her dwarf, Sir Jeffrey Hudson, William Hogarths Beggars Opera, Thomas Gainsboroughs Blue Boy, Henry Fuselis Nightmare, John Constables Hadleigh Castle,J. M. W. Turners Staffa, Fingals Cave,and William Holman Hunts Lady of Shalott.Following introductory essays by Malcolm Warner on anglophilia and art, and by Robyn Asleson on the history of collecting British art in the States, each painting is reproduced in color, with a discussion of its artistic importance and the circumstances of its crossing the Atlantic.Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art