Samuel Palmer: Paintings and Drawings

by Colin Harrison

The collection of paintings, drawings, watercolors and etchings by Samual Palmer in the Ashmolean Museum is an important one. This handbook reproduces through color illustrations all but a few of the works by Palmer in the Ashmolean.

Genres: Art

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2005

About the author

Colin ^ Harrison is the Senior Curator of European Art in the Ashmolean Museum, where he has worked since 1993.

His main areas of curatorial responsibility are British and French art before 1945, including paintings, drawings, prints, and portrait miniatures; and musical instruments, notably the Hill Collection of bowed instruments.

Reviews

[Paul Bryant]

I found this little book in my loft, didn't realise I had it. Remarkable what I find there sometimes. Perhaps books spontaneously generate up there. It is a mysterious space. For me there are three English artists who were without a doubt graced or cursed by some kind of mysticism, there was William Blake, everyone knows him, there was Stanley Spencer, with his visions of the Resurrection in Cookham, Surrey (various frumpy middle aged types clambering out of their graves and tut tutting about it), and there was Samuel palmer who I think is the least known



He did scenes of rural England in which sheep feature quite often and which seem to me to be very like the Eden we were all thrown out of by an angry Landlord some time ago.