This volume brings together all oil paintings in public ownership in Suffolk. Some 1,800 paintings from 40 collections are reproduced in this color catalogue. Collections range from Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries with 892 paintings to that of Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters with only one. Works by Constable,
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This volume brings together all oil paintings in public ownership in Suffolk. Some 1,800 paintings from 40 collections are reproduced in this color catalogue. Collections range from Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries with 892 paintings to that of Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters with only one. Works by Constable,
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VG (Page edges are slightly tanned; otherwise clean. ) Gray boards, gray & color illus. dust jacket, 266 pp. many color illus.; weighs 4 lbs. Part of an ongoing series of volumes that "record the nation's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership and...make these accessible through a series of affordable catalogues." About this volume: "This volume brings together all oil paintings in public ownership in Suffolk. Some 1800 paintings from 40 collections are reproduced in this colour catalogue. Collections range from Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries with 892 paintings to that of Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service headquarters with only one. Works by Constable, Gainsborough and Reynolds feature prominently together with paintings by less well known East Anglian artists. The catalogue provides a rich source of social history of the county and an invaluable guide to its art." (back cover).