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Author Riopelle, Christopher.

Title A brush with nature : the Gere collection of landscape oil sketches / Christopher Riopelle, Xavier Bray ; with an essay by Charlotte Gere
Edition Revised edition
Published London : National Gallery, 2003

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 MELB  758.1 Gere Rio/Bwn 2003  AVAILABLE
Description 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Summary "Beginning in the 1950s, John and Charlotte Gere pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors. Such pictures, painted quickly to capture subtle atmospheric effects and the fleeting play of light, played a vital role in the visual training of generations of European artists. The sketches were not conceived of as finished works of art, were rarely if ever exhibited during the painters' lifetimes, and were often kept in the studio for later consultation." "Today the Gere collection numbers some 70 works, the majority of them views of Italy by British, French, Italian, German, Belgian and Scandinavian artists. It includes paintings by such admired figures as Thomas Jones, Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Simon Denis, Louis Gauffier, Francois-Marius Granet, Gilles Classon, Giovanni-Battista Camuccini and Frederic, Lord Leighton. These intimate and compelling documents of artists at work form what is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of its kind." "Two introductory essays provide a background to the collection. Charlotte Gere's memoir charts its formation, while Christopher Riopelle's essay traces the development of the plein-air oil sketch, and its place in European painting. This revised edition incorporates new information about the paintings gathered since the Gere collection was first shown at the National Gallery in summer 1999, much of it generously provided by visitors to that exhibition."--BOOK JACKET
Notes "Distributed by Yale University Press."
This book published to accompany an exhibition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
This book published to accompany an exhibition at The National Gallery, 23 June - 30 August 1999 ; The Frick Collection, New York, 12 September - 12 November 2000 ; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 12 January - 25 March 2001 ; York City Art Gallery, 16 February - 14 April 2002 ; The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, 19 January - 6 April 2003 ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 19 June - 14 September 2003 ; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 4 October 2003 - 4 January 2004
Subject Gere, Charlotte -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
Gere, John A. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
Gere, Charlotte -- Art collections.
Gere, John A. -- Art collections.
Landscape painting -- Private collections -- England -- London -- Exhibitions.
Landscape painting -- 18th century.
Landscape painting -- 19th century.
Landscape painting, European -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
Landscape painting, European -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Oil sketches -- Europe -- Exhibitions.
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Gere, Charlotte.
Gere, John A.
National Gallery (Great Britain)
ISBN 1857099982