The Book Shop at Abbot Hall stocks a specialised range of art books and exhibition catalogues as well as children's books, including Drawing for the Artistically Undiscovered by Quentin Blake & John Cassidy, The Scribble Book,The Book with a Whole and The Colouring Book all by Hervé Tullet and Miffy the Artist by Dick Bruna. There are also greetings cards, postcards and with selected exhibitions - artist's prints.
Entry to the Book Shop is free, but if you can’t make it to the shop please contact us on 01539 722464 or email info [at] abbothall [dot] org [dot] uk to order art books and catalogues.
Turner and his Contemporaries: The Hickman Bacon Watercolour Collection
Fully illustrated catalogue for the exhibition at Abbot Hall.
116 pages
ISBN: 9781906043117
RRP £15.00
Past Exhibition Catalogues
Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections
Fully illustrated catalogue for the exhibition at Abbot Hall.
88 pages
ISBN: 9781906043094
RRP £15.00
David Bomberg: Spirit in the Mass
Fully illustrated catalogue featuring over 50 paintings and works-on-paper, some of which have never been seen by the public before.
Introduction by Richard Cork
96 pages
58 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-28-3
RRP £15.00
Drawn from Life
Fully illustrated catalogue for the exhibition at Abbot Hall.
Essay by Katharine Stout
80 pages
ISBN: 9780956182913
RRP £15.00
Drawing Inspiration: Contemporary British Drawing
The catalogue for this one-off exhibition features drawings by up and coming artists as well as established names such as Frank Auerbach, Peter Doig and Paula Rego.
Essay by Deanna Petherbridge, Professor of Drawing.
64 pages
63 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-26-7
RRP £15.00
Bridget Riley
Covering her works from 1961 to 1998
Includes:
Bridget Riley in conversation with Isabel Carlisle, Art Critic
78 pages
33 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-00-3
RRP £15.00
Paula Rego - 'Celestina's House'
Catalogue of new and recent works by Paula Rego for this exclusive exhibition at Abbot Hall
Includes:
Introduction by Fiona Bradley and an interview with the artist.
84 pages
54 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-05-4
RRP £15.00
Walter Richard Sickert - 'The Human Canvas'
Full catalogue for this exclusive exhibition at Abbot Hall detailing 43 works in the show.
Includes:
'Sickert and the English tradition', an essay by Sickert's biographer,
Matthew Sturgis
In depth background information to each painting.
104 pages
43 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-17-8
RRP £15.00
Sean Scully - 'Paintings and Works on Paper'
Full catalogue for this exclusive exhibition at Abbot Hall detailing the 23 works in the show.
Includes:
An essay by art critic Bill Feaver.
Sean Scully in conversation with Liliane Tomasko.
72 pages
32 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-19-4
RRP £12.50
Sublime Inspiration: The Art of Mountains from Turner to Hillary
The Art of Mountains from Turner to Hillary.
Exhibition organised in conjunction with the Alpine Club London.
Includes:
Essay by Michael Wheeler, former Professor of English Literature and Director of the Ruskin programme - Lancaster University
Essay by Jerry Lovatt, The Alpine Club
52 pages
28 colour reproductions
ISBN: 0950-3335-8-1
RRP £11.50
Pictures of Innocence: Children in 18th Century Portraiture
RRP £10.00
Masters of British Art at Abbot Hall Collecting the Past, Present & Future
Fully illustrated catalogue and comprehensive guide to Abbot Hall's collection.
72 pages
Colour reproductions
ISBN: 978-1-906043-01-8
RRP £7.50
Nicola Hicks - 'Sculpture, Drawing and Light'
Full catalogue for this exclusive exhibition at Abbot Hall detailing the 14 sculptures in the show.
An essay by William Packer on the recent sculpture of Nicola Hicks.
An interview with the artist.
40 pages
14 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-18-6
RRP £7.50
Craigie Aitchison: The Prints 1969 - 2008
Craigie Ronald John Aitchison, artist, born 13 January 1926; died 21 December 2009
Craigie held one of his last exhibitions at Abbot Hall in October 2008
Fully illustrated catalogue supporting the exhibition
Introduction
12 pages
8 Colour reproductions
RRP: £3.50
David Nash: An Interview
An interview with David Nash by Edward King took place at Nash’s studio at Blaenau Ffestiniog on 28 May 2009, published in a 32 page illustrated book (200 x 200 mm) containing 10 full page colour plates, many taken since the interview and published for the first time. It also includes a complete list of works at Abbot Hall and Blackwell 6 July - 10 October 2009.
RRP £5.00
Stanley Spencer - 'Love, desire, Faith'
Full catalogue for this exclusive exhibition at Abbot Hall detailing 26 works in the show.
Includes:
In depth background information to each painting.
68 pages
26 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-09-7
RRP £5.00
Celia Paul: Stillness
Fully illustrated catalogue supporting the 2004 exhibition
79 pages
ISBN: 1902498151
RRP £12.00
Books
Tony Bevan
by Tony Bevan
ISBN 0853319510
£40.00 hardback, Published by Lund Humphries
British Impressionism
by Kenneth McConkey
ISBN 0714829560
£16.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
Cotman in the North Watercolours of Durham and Yorkshire
by David Hill
ISBN 030010748
£35.00 hardback, Published by Yale University Press
Garry Fabian Miller: Time Passage
Major new publication, spanning work from the Sea Horizons of the mid 1970s to pictures produced in recent months.
ISBN: 978-0-9555225-5-0
£15.00, published in 2008 / James Hyman Gallery
Lucian Freud - Paintings
by Robert Hughes
ISBN 0500275351
£19.95 paperback, Published by Thames & Hudson
Terry Frost
by David Lewis
ISBN 0853317933
£35.00 paperback, Published by Lund Humphries
Andy Goldsworthy Wall
by Kenneth Baker, Jerry L Thompson and Andy Goldsworthy
ISBN 0500019916
£22.50 hardback, Published by Thames & Hudson
Andy Goldsworthy Hand to Earth
by Andy Goldsworthy and Terry Friedman
ISBN 9780500284977
£19.95 paperback, Published by Thames & Hudson
Antony Gormley
by Joan Hutshinson, E.H. Gombrich, Lela B Njatin and W.J.T Mitchell
ISBN 97807148395203
£24.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
William Green of Ambleside
by M.E. Burkett and I.D.G. Sloss
£12.95 hardback, Published by Abbot Hall
Ivon Hitchens
by Peter Khoroche
ISBN 9780853319368
£35.00 ardback, Published by Lund Humphries
David Hockney My Early Years
by David Hockney
ISBN 0500275270
£14.95 paperback, Published by Thames and Hudson
Kitaj
by Andrew Lambirth
ISBN 0856675717
£CALL hardback, Published by Philip Wilson Publishers
Ben Nicholson
Fully illustrated catalogue supporting the 2008 exhibition - A Continous Line: Ben Nicholson in England.
Includes:
Edited by Chris Stephens
With essays by Ysanne Holt and Margaret Garlake
128 pages
Colour reproductions
ISBN: 978-1-85437-740-1
£14.99, published by Tate Publishing
Ben Nicholson
by Norbert Lynton
ISBN 0714837504
£22.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
Paula Rego
by John McEwen
ISBN 9780714836225
£22.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
John Ruskin
by Tim Hilton
ISBN 0300090994
£14.99 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
John Ruskin The Elements of Drawing
by Bernard Dunstan
ISBN 9780713682939
£14.99 paperback, Published by The Horbert Press
Sean Scully
by David Carrier
ISBN 0500093121
£39.95 hardback, Published by Thames & Hudson
Stanley Spencer
by Duncan Robinson
ISBN 0714828106
£16.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
The Cutting Edge of Modernity
by Gordon Samuel and Nicola Penny
ISBN 0853318662
£22.50 paperback, Published by Lund Humphries
Turner in the North
by David Hill
ISBN 0300069448
£25.00 paperback, Published by Yale University Press
Turner Watercolours
by David Blayney Brown
£14.99 paperback, Published by Tate
Euan Uglow - A Personal Choice
by Craigie Aitchison
ISBN 0903679000
£10.95 paperback, Published by Holburne Museum of Art
Audio CD
Discovery Audio Guide to Cumbria and the Lake District
The guide tells you about the history of the area, and give you ideas for places to visit and things to do. You can listen to fascinating stories at home while planning your trip, or in the car while driving around the area.
ISBN 9780956586407
£4.99
