Books from National Galleries of Scotland
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Impressionist Gardens
By Clare A. P. Willsdon"A major international exhibition of around 90 works examining the significance, origins, and influence of the Impressionist garden. This is the first exhibition ever to be devoted to this subject....
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Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878-1883
By Michael Clarke, Richard Thomson, Claude MonetMonet 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...
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Richard Long: Walking and Marking
By Richard LongRichard Long is one of the most influential artists of our time. His innovative, beautiful and thought-provoking work can be seen in museums all over the world. Born in 1945,...
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Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable
By John ConstableAttempts to match paintings with ideas and tries to establish
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A Shepherd's Life: Paintings of Jenny Armstrong by Victoria Crowe
By Julie Lawson, Victoria Crowe, Mary TaubmanIn a series of remarkable paintings made over twenty years and based on close observation, Victoria Crowe, one of Scotland's foremost painters, pays tribute to the life and work of this exceptional woman.
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F.C.B. Cadell
By Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, Alice StrangF.C.B. Cadell was born in Edinburgh, where he lived for most of his life, and studied in Paris and Munich. This book illustrates many of the works for which Cadell...
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Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural
By Ian Rankin, Douglas GordonThis book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon's work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in...
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Monet and French Landscape: Vétheuil and Normandy
By Frances FowleDuring the late 1870s and early 1880s Monet reached a crossroads in his career. Based in Vétheuil and later at Poissy, he was often short of money and, even though...
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A Companion Guide to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
By Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Patrick ElliottFounded only in 1960, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh already boasts an outstanding collection of modern and contemporary art. The collection includes major works by artists...
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Portrait Miniatures from Scottish Private Collections
By Stephen LloydThis book reveals the wealth of British and European miniatures preserved in Scottish private collections, most of which are not normally on show to the public. Some of these intimate...
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Lighting Up the Landscape: French Impressionism and Its Origins
By National Gallery of ScotlandLighting Up the Landscape: French Impressionism and Its Origins
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Paolozzi
By Fiona Pearson, Eduardo PaolozziEduardo Paolozzi is a major figure in postwar British art: a father of pop art, a creator of key icons of the nuclear age, a brilliant manipulator of the images...
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Cézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape
By National Gallery of Scotland, Richard VerdiCézanne and Poussin: The Classical Vision of Landscape
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Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966
By Alberto Giacometti, Royal Academy of Arts, Scottish National Gallery of Modern ArtA giant of twentieth-century art, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) stands beside Picasso and Matisse as an artist who has defined the way our century is perceived, and alongside them as one...
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The Discovery of Spain: British Artists and Collectors : Goya to Picasso
By David Howarth, Christopher Baker, Paul StirtonThis unprecedented survey contains contributions from renowned scholars and illustrates the work of the Spanish masters Velázquez, El Greco, Goya and Picasso, and the British artists David Wilkie, David Roberts,...
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William MacTaggart, 1903-1981
By Iain GaleWilliam MacTaggart, 1903-1981
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The Monarch of the Glen: Landseer in the Highlands
By Richard Ormond, Royal Scottish Academy, Sir Edwin Landseer"Published by the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland to accompany the exhibition ... held at the Royal Scottish Academy Building from 14 April to 10 July 2005."--T.p. verso.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France: Landscape Watercolours
By Pamela Robertson, Philip Long"Towards the end of his life Charles Rennie Mackintosh moved to the south of France where he devoted himself to painting in watercolour. Meticulously executed and brilliantly coloured, these works...
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David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of Their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the...
By David Octavius Hill, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Sara StevensonDavid Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson: Catalogue of Their Calotypes Taken Between 1843 and 1847 in the Collection of the...
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Tracey Emin: 20 Years
By Tracey Emin, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Julian SchnabelTracey Emin is one of the most famous artists working in Britain today. Born in London in 1963, she grew up in Margate and experienced a difficult childhood. Her teenage...