A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact – landscape as ‘places of the mind’, as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it – is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the British Museum’s impressive collection, this book explores artists’ spiritual quests to capture the essence of landscape and convey a sense of place. Artists of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on earlier traditions but developed and extended the genre through their imaginative, personal responses to the artistic, cultural and social upheavals of the time. The book includes works by Victorian artists Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Poynter and by many well known twentieth-century artists, such as John and Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, some of which have never previously been published.

A compelling introduction to the life and artistic output of a trailblazing Norwegian painter, printmaker, and horticulturist Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) was a highly individual Norwegian Modernist artist known for intensely colored paintings and woodcuts of his native landscape. Astrup received a formal art education in Kristiania (now Oslo), Germany, and Paris, but he later rebelled against certain aspects of his training, such as the traditional conventions of optical perspective. He rejected metropolitan cultural centers in favor of his rural childhood home in western Norway, where he produced a remarkable body of work. This volume brings Astrup's life and work to a North American audience, situating him within the history and culture of Norway and late 19th- and early 20th-century art. Astrup's horticultural achievements in the service of his art on the farm where he lived are also explored. The book's beautiful illustrations highlight the intensity of Astrup's palette, the innovative nature of his prints, and the magical realism of his landscapes steeped in folklore and local customs. Distributed for the Clark Art Institute in cooperation with KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen, Savings Bank Foundation DNB, and Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde Exhibition Schedule: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (June 19-September 19, 2021) KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Bergen (October 15, 2021-January 23, 2022) Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, Stockholm (February 19-May 29, 2022)

A Collection Of Popular Superstitions, Legendary Tales, Peculiar Customs, Probers, Weather Sayings, Etc., Of The People Of That Island.

A Collection Of Popular Superstitions, Legendary Tales, Peculiar Customs, Probers, Weather Sayings, Etc., Of The People Of That Island.

A Collection Of Popular Superstitions, Legendary Tales, Peculiar Customs, Probers, Weather Sayings, Etc., Of The People Of That Island.

Gives almost 15,000 inscriptions from 333 grave sites, which are believed to be all that still exist in the upper half of the county. Death dates range from 1709 to 1994. Entries include Caucasian and African American burials. All inscriptions give birth