Buy this book on-line McCONKEY,KENNETH & RISDON,PETER & SHEPPARD,PAULINE: : HAROLD HARVEY:PAINTER OF CORNWALLUK.CLIFTON,BRISTOL.SANSOM & COMPANY LTD.,2001. ISBN 1900178532.
UK,Qrto,original wraps,1st edn.(Softback original
- no HB edn.Published 2001,in association with Penlee House Gallery and Museum,Penzance.)FINE.
No owner inscrptn.Bright, crisp, clean, glossy laminated colour pictorial illustrated card wraps
[upper wrap flower pickers in The Donkey Meadow,
1924 - oil on canvas,and An Interior,1919 to rear wrap,by Harold Harvey],with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean;
contents bright, tight and pristine, no reading creases to spine/backstrip - an unread copy? Qrto, 6-176pp [paginated] includes half-title+
title pages,colour illustrated frntis (Reflections,1916 - artist's wife Gertrude,at her bedroom dressing-table examining her face in a hand-held mirror), contents list/table, Alison Lloyd preface (Penlee House Gallery+Museum director], intro, 7 chapters, profusely illustrated b/w+colour contemporary pictures/
photographs etc., catalogue raisonne, list of models,2pp selected biblio by Peter Risdon,and an index.
Harold Harvey,a true 'son of Cornwall',has been one of the most under-rated and least written about members of the Newlyn 'School' of artists which flourished from 1880 to 1930.The son of a bank manager,he grew up in Penzance,and after studying under Norman Garstin and a spell in Paris,he settled to a quiet life in Newlyn with fellow-artist Gertrude,painting the Cornwall he knew from the inside.In his introductory essay in Harold Harvey:Painter of Cornwall, Professor Kenneth McConkey sets Harvey in the context of the art movements of the time, and shows how his early 'genre' paintings of rustic and marine life, so characteristic of the early Newlyn artists,gradually gave way to more sophisticated subject matter - Harvey was noted for his sumptuous interiors - and a flatter and more decorative style of painting.His early work might be compared with that of Stanhope Forbes, while his later paintings show clear affinities with those of fellow painters such as Laura Knight and Dod Procter.
Professor McConkey's essay complements the first significant 'life' of Harold Harvey, researched and written by Peter Risdon and Pauline Sheppard, which is in turn illuminated by Peter Risdon's painstakingly compiled catalogue raisonne of over 600 paintings.Harvey's
painting output was prodigious,and this book includes approx 100 colour and many b/w illustrations of his favoured subjects:the Cornish at work, children at play, and intimate interior scenes and conversation pieces.Many of his contemporaries in Newlyn were visiting
'observers',but for Harold Harvey,who rarely went
outside the county even though a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy,painting the Cornish world 'because it was there' was his whole life.
Sansom & Company have published related studies of Lamorna Birch, Elizabeth Forbes and Walter Langley, books on British artists from 1800 to the present, and other books of Cornish interest.
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