Pepper, 1930 Photograph by Edward Weston.
© 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.
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EDWARD WESTON
8-25 SEPTEMBER 2010
AN EXHIBITION OF 37 PRINTS BY THE AMERICAN MASTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Very few photographers have left a legacy as rich as that left by the American Modernist, Edward Weston. He was one of the great photographic innovators, and is remembered for having pushed the boundaries of the medium to new levels. Weston was an artist who found beauty in everything, from a discarded pair of boots to a mountain range, and he helped see photography into its greatest period – when the camera's mechanical clarity was at last embraced by artists, rather than smothered by artifice and hackneyed notions of the picturesque.
The 37 prints in this exhibition were made by Edward Weston's son Cole, in the decades after his Father's death, from the original negatives, and come directly from the family. These prints were made in small numbers, with both exquisite precision and the qualities that Cole knew his father demanded.
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LOUIS WAIN
AND THE SUMMER CAT SHOW
14 August – 4 September 2010
This is the 30th Annual exhibition of the best of British ‘Cat Art’ and it returns this year to its popular August period with the lively opening on Saturday and Sunday 14th and 15th. Serious collectors and enthusiasts have always thronged to this cheerful weekend event and this eclectic feline display will remain on the gallery walls for a further three weeks.
This entertaining show is bigger and better than ever this year with over 250 pictures, including great new works from all the living artists: Lesley Fotherby, Geraldine Girvan, Susan Herbert, Lesley Anne Ivory, and the Swiss artist, Dédé Moser, and more naughty cats from the great Ronald Searle who was 90 this year.
It is, however, the art of the beautifully eccentric Edwardian cat artist, LOUIS WAIN (1860-1939), that makes this such a special event each year. CHRIS BEETLES is the principal dealer, worldwide, in Louis Wain; the gallery will be showcasing the second and final part of the remarkable collection from the estate of a Dublin psychiatrist.This special group contains many of Wain’s fascinating later works, which show the artist’s descent into schizophrenia, with the cats taking on colourful kaleidoscopic shapes
and patterns.The aesthetic inspiration for these finds its source in Wain’s childhood memories – his mother designed carpets and his father was a textile salesman.This late period of Louis Wain’s work is particularly rare and sought after by collectors.
Chris Beetles is the publisher of the definitive biography LOUIS WAIN:THE MAN WHO DREW CATS, which is available from the gallery in Hardback and Softback editions.
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Edwin Smith
Throughout the summer from 13 July
Edwin Smith (1912-1971) was the most significant British photographer of architecture and landscape in the mid twentieth century. For twenty years, his images graced many notable books and helped redefine notions of Britishness for the post-war generation. His achingly beautiful interpretations of characteristic buildings from cathedrals to cottages, and terrains from beach to bog, convey an unparalleled sense of place.
An exclusive collaboration with the British Architectural Library Photographs Collection, RIBA, the 55 images in the exhibition will comprise a comprehensive overview of his career.
A fully illustrated, 96 page catalogue, with evaluative essays and a chronology, will accompany the exhibition priced at £10 + p&p.
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CHRIS BEETLES SUMMER SHOW 2010 |
The best of 200 years of British Art |
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Over 200 works of art, with major groups of works by Hercules Brabazon Brabazon NEAC, Albert Goodwin RWS, H H La Thange RA ROI NEAC, Norman Neason RWS RE, S R Badmin RWS RE, Peter Coker RA and Keith Grant.
A display of paintings by the Fraser Family of the Fens, to launch their definitive biography, photographs by Edwin Smith, and sculpture by Sydney Harpley RA FRBS.
A fully illustrated 89 page catalogue, with biographies and essays is available for £10 + p&p.
From 15 June, throughout the Summer.
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A NEW EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY
ROY HAMMOND
NEAR AND FAR: AN EASIER WAY TO TRAVEL
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May 2010
10am – 5:30pm
A new collection of Roy Hammond’s unique and atmospheric watercolours will transport you to some of the most charming and romantic corners of London, and a world beyond the ash cloud.
Roy Hammond has long been a favourite artist of the gallery and each new exhibition continues to be a popular gallery event:
Come and meet the artist on this exclusive weekend.
Champagne, coffee and croissants all day long.
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10 March - 3 April 2010
‘In my painting I wish to reverse the traditional English progression from figuration to abstraction ... and produce images of “authentic” force.These new works are beginning to be clothed in popular dress but see a little deeper and the inexorable power of nature is, I hope, intimated.’
We are delighted to announce Keith Grant’s first solo show with the Chris Beetles Gallery, consisting of 60 works in a variety of size and media.
One of the greatest living landscape painters, he travels extensively and confronts the elements in order to produce extraordinary, resonant images of nature from the Northern Lights to the waterfalls of South America.
The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated biographical catalogue, available from the gallery at £10 (£2 UK, £3 Europe, £5 world)
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3 March-3 April 2010
We are thrilled to announce a large retrospective exhibition, to celebrate Ronald Searle’s 90th birthday.
With over 200 cartoons, illustrations and drawings for sale, all aspects of his astonishing career are represented, including work from Punch and the News Chronicle, reportage, and advertisements for Lemon Hart Rum.
In addition, the exhibition will be supplemented by major loans from private collections. These will include examples of his inimitable creations, Nigel Molesworth and the Girls of St Trinian’s, as well as work for Life magazine during the Nixon/Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960.
The official biography of Ronald Searle, written by Russell Davies, profusely illustrated, and with a comprehensive bibliography, is available from the gallery for £20 + p&p (£4 UK, £7 Europe & £14 world).
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