Cornwall's 'fisherfolk' art & artifice
By: Mary O'Neill
Publisher: Sansom & Co. Ltd.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781908326591
Subjects: Newlyn school of painting; Exhibitions; English Painting; Fishers in art
Description: The artists that colonised Newlyn from the 1880s onwards, such as Elizabeth Armstrong, Frank Bramley, William Breakspeare, Stanhope Forbes, Edwin Harris, Walter Langley and Leghe Suthers, saw the local citizens as models of stability, courage, perseverance and faith. They painted working people engaged in everyday tasks, alongside moments of high drama, a version of contemporary life that was often carefully constructed and staged. With over seventy works on display, many borrowed from private and public collections, this exhibition shows how the spaces inhabited by these 'model citizens' are orderly, offering them as examples for the nation as a whole. Exhibition curated by Mary O'Neill.--http://www.museumsincornwall.org.uk.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Modle Citizens : Myths and Realities', 14 June-6 September 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.