Lund Humphries is delighted to be publishing the first book in its newly launched Contemporary Painters Series: the only detailed account of the paintings of American artist Thomas Nozkowski (b. 1944), creator of modestly sized abstract works. As an emerging artist in the 1970s, Nozkowski’s mature style developed in the wake of Minimalism, Pop Art and […]
Heath Robinson (1872–1944) is fondly regarded for his mischievous, gently comic illustrations that have been enjoyed for generations. For the first time the advertising work of this incredibly versatile artist takes centre stage in Heath Robinson’s Commercial Art: A Compendium of his Advertising Work by Geoffrey Beare. For a diverse range of clients, Robinson’s inventiveness, […]
A major exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of British artist John Minton (1917–1957) has opened at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Here the exhibition’s co-curator and author of the definitive biography of John Minton, Frances Spalding, introduces the artist’s extraordinary life and work. In the course of John Minton’s short career, he was frequently […]
We are thrilled to be publishing Frederick Walker and the Idyllists by Donato Esposito, the first book in over a century to explore the work of watercolour artist and illustrator Frederick Walker (1840–1875), described by Sir John Everett Millais as “the greatest artist of the century”, as well as that of his closest artistic allies. Donato Esposito focuses […]
On 14 June 2017, Lund Humphries hosted a discussion on the comparative social housing traditions of London and Vienna, at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Liane Lefaivre, Professor and Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria, and author […]
For popular British artist Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017), India was a source of inspiration from his first visit to the country in 1964. The first of Hodgkin’s paintings inspired by India, Indian Subject (Blue), 1965–1969, was also the first of his paintings to be painted on wood, rather than canvas. It began a long exploration of paint […]
Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de-siècle to the present day, Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner by Liane Lefaivre provides an insightful analysis of the city’s extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Despite being a small city, since 1900, Vienna has produced many great architects and their work includes some […]
It may seem strange that the largest object in the Victoria and Albert Museum is not in the care of a curator. The building itself is a masterpiece of Victorian and Edwardian art and design, indeed, it is the most elaborate and complex museum building in Britain. Fortunately, many curators have fallen in love with […]
When Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I, fled to America in 1815, he packed his collection of 18th-century French painting. In an effort to spread his native country’s culture across the United States, he put his works on public display, causing a sensation and inspiring a new American fascination with French art. From then […]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th anniversary celebrated in two publications from Lund Humphries In May 1939, the celebrated American architect Frank Lloyd Wright visited London and gave four lectures at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Each evening the newly completed Jarvis Lecture Hall was full and the meetings were hailed at the time as the […]
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