Albert Goodwin
dal 4/6/2007 al 30/7/2007
Segnalato da
4/6/2007
Albert Goodwin
Beetles Gallery, London
Solo show
Solo show
“For pure
aesthetic delight, an untouched sketch of Albert Goodwin’s on the spot is
better than any finished drawing.” - John Ruskin, 1886 The first Albert
Goodwin show for a decade will be exhibited at Chris Beetles Gallery from
June 5th. Albert Goodwin was probably the greatest follower of Turner.
Travelling beyond Europe to India, the South Seas, Australia and the USA,
he was the last of the great Victorian travelling artists, developing
Turner’s aesthetic and applying it to places that Turner never saw.
The
exhibition follows museum blockbuster 'Ruskin, Turner and the
Pre-Raphaelites' at Tate Britain, and 'The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William
Hunt and the Art of Landscape' at the Ashmolean, which have demonstrated a
revival of interest in the influence of Turner on Later Victorian artists.
Along with Alfred William Hunt, Goodwin was the most successful artist to
follow Ruskin’s appeal to synthesise Turner’s atmospherics with
Pre-Raphaelite precision. The Chris Beetles Gallery has long championed
Albert Goodwin, having organised a major touring exhibition in 1986,
published a limited edition monograph, and staged further shows throughout
the 1990s.
This is our most comprehensive exhibition yet with over 150
pictures ranging from delicate pencil sketches, through finished
watercolours to fully realised, large-scale oils. It will be accompanied by
a fully illustrated, colour catalogue with erudite essays by Godfrey
Barker, Hammond Smith, and David Wootton, priced at £15 post-free from the
gallery. “What is constant is the pleasure and deep reward Goodwin gave to
his contemporaries and which he continues to give now.”
Beetles Gallery
10 Ryder Street - London
Free admission