John Crome the Elder, Volume II: Illustrations 0814729576, 9780814729571

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JOHN CROME THE ELDER By Norman

L. Goldberg

This two-volume work on John Crome is easily the most comprehensive work to have appeared so far on . the artist, exceeding in scope both C. H. Collins Baker’s Crome, published in 1921, Derek and Timothy Clifford’s

John

Crome

of

1968.

Dr.

Goldberg has devoted over two decades to the study of John Crome and the artists of the Norwich School and “has become one of the world’s leading authorities on the school,” according to The New York Times. He

has,

the

Times

reports,

“‘been

conducting sort of a one-man international crusade to raise the stature of what he considers a neglected group of artists,’

and

this

edition

will

contribute substantially to that effort. Volume I includes an introductory

study of Crome’s painting and interpretations,

and

chapters

on

the

master’s artistic background, his aesthetic sources in nature and their application in painting, the chronvulogical growth and development of Crome’s style, his draftsmanship as a clue to identification, the copies, imitations and forgeries and his relation to the foundation and life of the Norwich school. Concentrating on the problems of style and authenticity, Dr. Goldberg demonstrates how Crome’s paintings are built up, how

lines and colors, combined

and

arranged in a particular way, stir aesthetic emotion. Dr. Goldberg also provides a detailed biographical summary of the artist and a chronology of the chief

events of the Norwich School juxtaposed with historical and cultural events of the time. In the critical catalogue, oriented to an analytical examination of Crome’s art, are listed 245 paintings, drawings, watercolors and etchings, each with listings of medium, support, dimensions, collection, provenance, exhibitions,

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John Crome the Elder

Publication of this book

has been aided by a grant from The Millard Meiss Publication Fund of the

College

Art Association of America

The

publication

of this

book has been aided by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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GOLDBERG

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UNIVERSITY

PRESS

1978

Copyright © 1978 by New York University Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-27046 ISBN:

0-8147-2957-6

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Contents

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VOLUME LIST

OF

Cae II

ILLUSTRATIONS

Frontispiece

VII

The Landscapes

IX-82 Figs. 1-60,

Figs. 63-68,

Figs. 70-84,

Figs. 87-95, Figs. 98-116 87 Figs. 122-123 OI Figs. 124-126

The Portraits The Inn Signs The Drawings and Watercolors

97

The Etchings

Figsi27 Figs. 129-211 147 Figs. 212-235 161

The Soft-Ground Etchings

Figs. 237-243

Work by Crome and John Berney Crome

82 Figntiy,

Work by Thomas Gainsborough

99 Fig. 128 83 Figs. 118-121

Copies, Imitations, and Forgeries

Comparative Illustrations by Copyists

43 Figs. 61, 62 47

Fig. 69 Or

Figs. 85, 86 64, 65 Figs. 96, 97

Unpublished Etchings

284, 236

288, 244, 245

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Frontispiece. Portrait of John Crome. Denis Brownell Murphy. Collection the right Honorable Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax, Barford, Norfolk.

Dale IDAUNUDIS GaP ES

1. The Cow Norwich.

2.

Tower on the Swannery Meadow,

Norwich.

City of Norwich

Museums,

View on the Coast of Baiae. City of Norwich Museums, Norwich.

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