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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Unusual amongst British regional galleries the Laing Art Gallery was gifted to the people of Newcastle without a collection of its own. Alexander Laing was not a connoisseur or collector and when he wrote to the Newcastle Corporation in 1900 offering to provide the building he was confident…that by the liberality of the inhabitants it would soon be supplied with pictures and statuary for the encouragement and development of British Art’. Precisely as Laing had anticipated the intervening 120 years have seen the Gallery through a series of gifts bequests and purchases accumulate one of the finest regional collections of fine and decorative art in the country Changing displays highlight various aspects of the collection and it is invigorating to be working with Liss Llewellyn once again on an exhibition that draws upon some of its strongest elements of 19th and 20th Century British art. Portrait of an Artist offers an opportunity to step into the inner world of the artist bringing the lives and image of those who existed behind the canvas to the forefront Thanks to their years of working directly with artists’ studios and an eye for the deceptively revealing Liss Llewellyn have brought together a collection of works that expose something intensely personal about those who created them. The exhibition is a varied account of how these artists viewed and lived in their worlds from the direct gaze of a self-portrait to an intimate moment between artist and sitter it records the quiet interiors of artists’ studios and homes that will resonate with many of us following the past year. (MP)