Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881 Vision and landscape

William Vaughan, 1943-

Book - 2005

"Samuel Palmer (1805-81) is one of the most original and influential of British painters. A younger contemporary of Turner and Constable, he looked at nature as much with the inner as with the outer eye, producing vision-inspired landscapes of unprecedented boldness and great poetic richness that form a striking contrast to the dominating naturalism of the day." "Marking the bicentenary of Palmer's birth, this catalogue is published to accompany the largest retrospective exhibition of his work for nearly eighty years. Bringing together nearly all his greatest works from collections around the world, supplemented with essays by eight distinguished scholars, it celebrates the full range of the artist's achievement.&qu...ot; /

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Published
London : New York : British Museum Press 2005.
Language
English
Corporate Authors
British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Main Author
William Vaughan, 1943- (-)
Corporate Authors
British Museum (-), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors
Elizabeth E. Barker (-), Colin Harrison, 1963-, David Bindman, 1940-, David Blayney Brown, Alexandra Greathead, Marjorie Shelley, 1945-, Scott Wilcox, 1952-
Item Description
Published to accompany and exhibition shown at the British Museum from 21 October 2005 to 22 January 2006 and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from 7 March 2006 to 28 May 2006.
Physical Description
256 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and indexes.
ISBN
9780714126418
  • Introduction / William Vaughan
  • 'Brothers in art, brothers in love': the ancients as an artistic community / William Vaughan
  • 'To fancy what is lost to sight': Palmer and literature / David Blayney Brown
  • The politics of vision: Palmer's Address to the Electors of West Kent, 1832 / David Bindman
  • Samuel Palmer's materials and techniques: the early years / Alexandra Greathead
  • Samuel Palmer's materials and techniques: the later years / Marjorie Shelley
  • Poetic feeling and chromatic madness: Palmer and Victorian watercolour painting / Scott Wilcox
  • 'The excitement of gambling, without its guilt and its ruin': Palmer and printmaking / Elizabeth E. Barker
  • The artistic rediscovery of Samuel Palmer / Colin Harrison
  • Chronology
  • Part One. The Visionary: 1. Early years (1805-23) / William Vaughan; 2. The primitive vision (1823-5) / William Vaughan; 3. Shoreham and the Ancients (1825-30) / William Vaughan; 4. Later Shoreham (1830-35) / Colin Harrison
  • Part Two. The Victorian: 5. The Traveller (1835-7) / Elizabeth E. Barker; 6. Italy (1837-40) / Elizabeth E. Barker; 7. Sketches and Idylls (1840-c.1865) / Elizabeth E. Barker; 8. The lonely tower (c.1865-81) / William Vaughan.