An edition of Country pursuits (2007)
Country pursuits
British, American, and French sporting art from the Mellon collections in the Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts
By Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Publish Date
2007
Publisher
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,in association with University of Virginia Press,University of Virginia Press
Language
eng
Pages
474
Description:
"The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has long been renowned for its fine collection of sporting art, which contains not only British but also American and French works. In this book, Malcolm Cormack examines these three national traditions together for the first time in one book." "Introducing both the British section and the book as a whole is a major essay that defines sporting art with a particular emphasis on British artists in the context of prevailing artistic trends. A separate section on British patronage follows, describing the social and political context of sporting art and destroying the myth that only a coarse class of country squires collected sporting pictures. The American and French sections are also introduced by accounts of sport and sporting art in those two countries." "Color reproductions of each work in the Mellon Collections are accompanied by catalogue entries that describe animal studies and scenes of horse racing, foxhunting and coursing, shooting and fishing, coaching and carriages, and other country pursuits." --Book Jacket.