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WILCOX, DENYS J [text] & MILLER, MICHAEL [Catalogue]: : TOM EARLY: The Catalogued Work

UK,BRISTOL.SANSOM & COMPANY LTD.,2005.

ISBN 1904537235.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,illustrated 1st edn. FINE/FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around black background with colour pictorial painting's illustrated front+rear panels of dw/dj,with capitalised yellow+white lettered subject;s name as part-title,remainder (sub-title) in white lettering along with author's text and cataloguer's name to front panel,spine/backstrip with capitalised, white lettered title and similarly coloured+ lettered author+cataloguer surnames and publisher's grey+white colophon to foot of same, rear panel with colour,painting thumbnail and white lettered publisher and grey+white illustrated colophon to lower edge. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - bumped with reciprocal crease to foot of front board's spine /backstrip's gutter fold/crease.Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,soild and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips, appears to be unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate repeated plain grey endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj, illustrated 1st edn,7-157pp [paginated] includes an Introduction by artist's wife/widow,6 chapters 3 of which give an insightful and sensiive potted biography,and also includes Notes,a Chronology and a list of Retrospective Exhibitions,these illustrated with contemporary b/w autobiographical thumbnail photographs and part+full page colour illustrations of his paintings throughout the text,a Catalogue Raisonne with accompanying Note,a Foreword to the Catalogue,3 sections: Paintings in Oil and Polymer,Graphic Works and Works in 3 Dimensions, again illustrated with b/w thumbnail paintings illustrations,colour illustrations and b/w photographs of 3 Dimensions works,an Index and as last paginated page with a blank verso,notes on the authors.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with blank verso,b/w thumbnail sketch illustrated title page,a Contents list/table with blank verso,and to the rear,2pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age and nature, i.e. areference book]. It is only the exterior fault described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that,it really is still an exceptional and exemplary copy for its cleanliness and brightness. Encouraged by Ben Nicholson,the self-taught TOM EARLY became part of the St. Ives (Cornwall) art colony in the late 1940s and 1950s.His first exhibitions,with Denis Mitchell,were held at the Castle Inn,St. Ives,and were followed by election to membership of the Penwith Society of Artists. EARLY's work quickly grew in confidence and sophistication,his paintings criticall well received at a ground-breaking exhibition 'Fifteen Cornish Artists' at Heal's Mansard Gallery,London in 1951, at which he showed alongside Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and other eminent St. Ives artists.Here he met his second wife,and two years later left Cornwall. It was to be seven years before a second flowering of painting was to emerge.During this period and following a return to medicine he was led into a constructive period of reflection which culminated in his taking up painting again after a move to Derby in 1858.Here with Keith Richardson-Jones he founded the Derby Group of Artists in 1961. EARLY's deeply personal vision aroused interest - not to say cantroversy - in the local and national media.He also exhibited with the Midland Group of artists in Nottingham intil his premature death in 1967 when his life's work effectively disappeared from view. It was rescued from oblivion,through the promptings of Sven Berlin, with a first major retrospective in 1994, 'Tom Early - The rediscovery of a St. Ives artist' at the Belgrave Gallery in London, the publication of 'The Magic Shuttle' by Rdcliffe Press,and an illustrated lecture at the Tate,St. Ives.A major joint exhibition with Denis Mitchell,'The Rock and the Light',at the Penwith Galleries,St. Ives in 1996 was followed by a number of mixed exhibitions.All this led naturally to the publication of this catalogue raisonne,the recording by Michael Miller,artist and friend,of around 150 paintings,works on paper and sculpture.Dr Denys Wilcox reveals Tom Early to be a rare visionary artist with a profound poetic gift in his appraisal prefacing the catalogue. Please contact seller for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. 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