John Virtue was invited to become the sixth National Gallery Associate Artist because of his deep-rooted relationship with the great European landscape tradition that is magnificently represented in the museum's collection. Working in the National Gallery's studio, Virtue has made an unprecedented series of large-scale paintings that represent the London cityscape looking towards St. Paul's and a smaller group showing Trafalgar Square from the roof of the National Gallery. Executed solely in black and white, they are ...
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John Virtue was invited to become the sixth National Gallery Associate Artist because of his deep-rooted relationship with the great European landscape tradition that is magnificently represented in the museum's collection. Working in the National Gallery's studio, Virtue has made an unprecedented series of large-scale paintings that represent the London cityscape looking towards St. Paul's and a smaller group showing Trafalgar Square from the roof of the National Gallery. Executed solely in black and white, they are monumental, epic works.This book illustrates all of Virtue's London paintings and a selection of his drawings. Following an introduction by Charles Saumarez Smith, other contributors explore the artist's place in both the context of his contemporaries and in the historical tradition of London cityscapes, the connection between Virtue's earlier work and the paintings and drawings he has made at the National Gallery, and Virtue's new paintings in the context of his residency at the National Gallery. "
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Very good in Good jacket. The top and bottom edges of the jacket are worn and slightly creased. The cover is in great condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight. Ink signature from the previous owner on the half-title page, otherwise all other pages are clean and unmarked.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. No markings. Binding tight. Jacket has light shelving wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. National Gallery Company. Audience: General/trade.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1857093852. Hardcover with dustjacket, beautiful copy, a small amount of edge-wrinkling at the bottom of the jacket is the only flaw to this fine copy and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "The expressive power and symbolic effectiveness and authority of Virtue's recent work is quite obviously authentic, the product of long labour and looking at the landscape in the hills and moorland of his native north-east Lancashire, the edge of Dartmoor and the Exe Estuary, and now in the very setting of London"; 112 pages.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., small smudge in margin of one page. no writing or markings. no bumps, tears, chips. tight binding.; 112pp., illustrated throughout in color, b/w., contains introduction, 3 essays, published to accompany exhibition that appeared at london national gallery, yale center for british art, and the courtauld, though not the catalogue per se..
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VG+/VG+ Gray cloth boards with black and white lettering, bw illustrated dust jacket, 112 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Published to accompany the exhibition: John Virtue: London Paintings at The National Gallery, London, 9 March to 5 June 2005. Introduction by Charles Saumarez Smith; essays by Simon Schama, Paul Moorhouse and Colin Wiggins. Includes bibliographical references.
