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Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of the nineteenth century, yet he avoided categorisation. In 1943 that the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson could confess that although they never met, "his work opened up to me the way to free painting - not merely freedom in the use of paint, but freedom of outlook". This book offers a comprehensive survey of Arthur Melville's (1855-1904) rich and varied career as artist-adventurer, Orientalist, forerunner of The Glasgow Boys, painter of modern life and re-interpreter of the landscape of Scotland. His travels inspired spectacular watercolours and paintings. This book illustrates around sixty of his works, each with a catalogue entry, and an essay by Kenneth McConkey, which discusses Melville's art and career.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

• Full title: Arthur Melville
• Author: Kenneth McConkey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9781906270872
• ISBN: 1906270872
• ID: 09276924
• Publisher: National Galleries of Scotland
• Weight: 714 g
• Dimensions: 267 × 245 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. October 2015

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