Tom Quinn charts the history of angling in art from its earliest beginnings in ancient Egypt, Greece and China, through the golden age in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the prolific artists of modern times. Among the famous artists who contributed an occasional angling picture, Tom Quinn identifies Hogarth, Zoffany, Devis, Morland, Sir Henry Raeburn, Henry Alken and above them all, Turner who painted a number of superb rivers scenes. Several artists, including A.F. Rolfe, H.L. Rolfe, Ernest Briggs and Norman ...
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Tom Quinn charts the history of angling in art from its earliest beginnings in ancient Egypt, Greece and China, through the golden age in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the prolific artists of modern times. Among the famous artists who contributed an occasional angling picture, Tom Quinn identifies Hogarth, Zoffany, Devis, Morland, Sir Henry Raeburn, Henry Alken and above them all, Turner who painted a number of superb rivers scenes. Several artists, including A.F. Rolfe, H.L. Rolfe, Ernest Briggs and Norman Wilkinson and particularly A. Rowland Knight, whose glorious paintings of fish in their natural surroundings are particularly admired, specialised in angling scenes. Among American fishing artists, Tom Quinn discusses Winslow Homer, a very great painter who lived and painted in the North of England for some years. Stanley Meltzoff has established himself as perhaps the best known painter of marine life and big game fishing today, something almost entirely absent in British fishing art. Another fine contemporary American artist, Michael Ringer, brilliantly creates the atmosphere of a day's fishing. The field of book illustration provides a very distinct aspect of angling art. Tom Quinn discusses Thomas Bewick and Arthur Rackham, the most celebrated illustrator of The Compleat Angler and Denys Watkins Pitchford (BB) whose woodcuts of fishing scenes and other sporting and animal life are justly popular in our own time. As Tom Quinn comments, writers and commentators on sporting art have tended to neglect angling art in favour of the horse and the shooting scene. Angling in Art shows what a rich heritage actually exists.
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Add this copy of Angling in Art to cart. $73.57, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by Sportsmans Pr.
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