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Chapters: J. M. W. Turner, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Bernard Leach, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Patrick Heron, Raymond Ray-Jones, Ben Nicholson, Tony O'malley, Bryan Pearce, Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Peter Lanyon, Frances Hodgkins, Janet Leach, Kurt Jackson, Christopher Wood, Ronald Ferns, John Noble Barlow, Sydney Laurence, John Hoskin, Albert Moulton Foweraker, Terry Frost, List of St Ives Artists, Simon Nicholson, Trevor Bell, Bryan Wynter, St Ives School, William Holt Yates Titcomb, Faust Lang, Adrian Scott Stokes, William Marshall, Roger Hilton, John Wells, Patrick Hayman, Sandra Blow, Seb West, Rose Hilton, Anthony Frost, Richard Short, Breon O'casey, Luke Frost, Algernon Talmage, Gwilt Jolley, Bob Crossley, Denis Mitchell, Bob Law, Jessica Cooper. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 163. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 177519 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. An engraving of a sketch by Turner depicting Brougham Castle. The sketch, made during a visit to the caste in 1809, provided the starting point for a later watercolour of the castle. The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839. The shipwreck of the Minotaur, oil on canvas.Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, England. His father, William Gay Turner (27...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=72187 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, Barbara Hepworth Museum. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The Turbine HallThe Tate Modern in London is Britain's national museum of international modern art and is, with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, and Tate Online, part of the group now known simply as Tate. Main article Bankside Power StationThe galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog ... Read more