St Ives 1939-64: Twenty Five Years of Painting, Sculpture and Pottery

by Tate Gallery

In 1985 an exhibition at the Tate Gallery focused attention on the art and artists of St. Ives, a small town in the far west of Cornwall. The catalog for that exhibit is made available again, with its insightful essay by David Lewis, along with updated bibliographies and biographies of the artists. Barbara Hepworth, Mary Jewels, Tony O'Malley, Alfred Wallis, and Ben Nicholson, to name just a few, are among the 45 artists and 19 potters whose work is represented. St. Ives art was a regional school, yet internationally minded, and sophisticated in its rethinking of the natural world in abstract terms. Contains color photos of exhibition items. 9.5x12" Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

248 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1985

About the author

Tate Gallery was founded in 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. When its role was changed in 1932 to include the national collection of modern art as well as the national collection of British art, it was renamed the Tate Gallery.