Bookshelf Travelling is a meme which was originally hosted by Judith at Reader in the Wilderness, but at the moment I’m gathering together any other Bookshelf Travelling posts.
This week I’m featuring the bottom shelf of a Billy bookcase in my sunroom. This is a room at the back of our house looking on to the garden and it’s the main reason we bought this place. Anyway, it’s a shelf of art books this week. In normal times we visit a lot of art galleries, exhibitions and museums and of course that hasn’t been possible this year. As Friends of the National Galleries of Scotland we have been able to access some interesting talks by experts so that has been an unexpected plus anyway.
This shelf houses books on Renoir, Tissot, Matisse – mainly well known artists, so I’m just going to feature a few lesser known artists.
James McIntosh Patrick is very well known in Scotland, he was born in nearby Dundee in 1907 and died in 1998 and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. You can see images of some of his work here. Most of his paintings are of local rural scenes in the east of Scotland, I really like his work.
I love woodcuts and Four Hedges A Gardener’s Chronicle by Claire Leighton has 88 illustrations in it, as this is a gardening book it’s doubly of interest to me. You can see images of some of her work here. Clare Leighton was the sister of the poet Roland Leighton, Vera Brittain’s fiance who was killed in World War 1.
Introducing The Glasgow Boys was published by Glasgow museums and written by museum curators Jean Walsh and Hugh Stevenson. You can see some of the artists’ work here.
I love children’s illustrated books, not all of them of course but some are beautiful and frankly probably aren’t published for children to get their hands on, unless they’re being supervised! A Treasury of The Great Children’s Book Illustrators features works by Edward Lear, John Tenniel, Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Beatrix Potter, Ernest H.Shepard, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth and W.W. Denslow.
Other Bookshelf Travellers this week are:
Those books look interesting, but particularly the last one, with several illustrators that I adore, including the wonderful Arthur Rackham – I wish I could look inside ^^
Iza,
I love Rackham, I have his Peter Pan prints on our staircase walls, I have quite a few books that he has illustrated, including Gulliver’s Travels.
Very lovely shelf of art books. Glen has lots of art books, although in recent years he has tended toward books of photographs. We have a book of art by Karl Larsson. My father enjoyed art books, although mostly he checked them out from the library and pored over them.
tracybham,
Most of my art books have been bought from secondhand bookshops as they can be very expensive new. When I worked in libraries we had to check any art books that were returned as sometimes people cut out pages, presumably so they could frame them! I don’t think I’ve ever looked at a book of photographs, unless you count books on Scotland with a lot of scenic photos in them.
Sorry, I ran out of time last weekend!
Constance,
I’m not far off running out of my own bookshelves to travel to, so will probably give up this meme at the end of the year.