The Book Shop at Abbot Hall stocks a diverse and specialised range of art books and exhibition catalogues as well as greetings cards, postcards and with selected exhibitions - artist's prints. Entry to the Book Shop is free, but if you can’t make it too the shop please contact us on 01539 722464 or email info [at] abbothall [dot] org [dot] uk to order art books and catalogues.
Exhibition Catalogue Sale
For a short period (until 31 March 2010) we have reduced the price of exhibition catalogues produced and published by the Lakeland Arts Trust.
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
Sale Price £7.50
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
Sale Price £7.50
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
Sale Price £7.50
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
Sale Price £7.50
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
Sale Price £7.50
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
Sale Price £6.25
Sublime Inspiration: 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
Sale Price £5.75
Pictures of Innocence: Children in 18th Century Portraiture
RRP £10.00
Sale Price £5.00
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
Sale Price £5.00
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
Sale Price £3.75
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
Sale Price £2.50
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
Sale Price £2.50
Conrad Atkinson
'20 Years: Ethical Viruses'
Introductory essay by Robert Woof, Thinking with Images
16 pages
19 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-04-6
RRP £5.00
Sale Price £2.50
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
Sale Price £2.50
Exhibition Catalogue Non-Sale
Due to the limited number of copies remaining the following are not reduced
Lucian Freud - 'Paintings and Etchings'
Paintings and etchings from throughout his career.
Includes:
Introduction by William Feaver, Art Critic
85 pages
27 colour reproductions
13 etchings
ISBN: 0-9503335-7-3
RRP £14.95 Only 35 remaining
Euan Uglow - 'Controlled Passion'
Fifty years of painting
Introduction by Richard Kendall
80 pages
52 colour reproductions
ISBN: 1-902498-13-5
RRP £14.95 Only 10 remaining
Limited Edition Drawings and Prints
David Nash
Black Dome, 2009
Stencil drawing in charcoal
Limited edition of 30
A unique opportunity to acquire an original stencil drawing by David Nash. Hand drawn with charcoal to a defined outline, each drawing is signed and dated by the artist.
Price unframed: £950
David Nash
Wooden Boulder 1978-2003
Signed limited edition box set of 350, containing:
DVD film
9 offset lithoprints
Full colour illustrated journey
Map of boulder journey
24 page book: The Whole Story by David Nash
£350
Books
Frances Bacon in the 1950s
by Michael Peppiatt
ISBN 030012192
£29.99 hardback, Published by Yale University Press
Tony Bevan
by Tony Bevan
ISBN 0853319510
£40.00 hardback, Published by Lund Humphries
A countryman in town Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group
Fully illustrated catalogue supporting the 2009 exhibition - Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group.
Authers - Patrick Baty, Frances Stenlake and John Yeates
80 pages
Colour reproductions
ISBN: 978-0-901723-41-3
£19.95, published by Southampton City Art Gallery
Elizabeth Black
by Duncan MacMillian
ISBN 0754600637
£37.50 hardback, Published by Scolar Press
The Stranger From Paradise A Biography of William Blake
by G.E. Bentley Jr
ISBN 0300100302
£35.00 paperback, Published by Yale University Press
British Impressionism
by Kenneth McConkey
ISBN 0714829560
£16.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
William Coldstream
by Bruce Laughton
ISBN 0300102437
£30.00 hardback, Published by Yale University Press
The Artist at Work: On the Working Methods of William Coldstream and Michael Andrews
by Colin St John Wilson
ISBN 9780853317593
£19.99 paperback, Published by Lund Humphries
Constable
by Michael Rosenthal
ISBN 0300037538
£25.00 paperback, Published by Yale University Press
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
Patrick Heron
by Mel Gooding
ISBN 9780714834443
£22.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
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
Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting
by Colin Wiggins, Philip Conisbee, Juliet Wilson-Bareau
ISBN 9781857093537
£14.95 paperback, Published by National Gallery
London War
by Julian Andrews
£29.95 paperback, Published by Lund Humphries
Richard Long
by Patrick Elliott
ISBN 9781903278987
£12.95 paperback, Published by National Galleries of Scotland
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
Picasso on Paper
by Patrick Elliott
ISBN 978903278871
£14.95 paperback, Published by National Galleries of Scotland
John Piper in the 1930s
by David Fraser Jenkins and Frances Spalding
ISBN 1858942233
£29.95, Published by Merrell
Read's Point of View
by Mary E Burkett and David Sloss
ISBN 0900811285
£19.95 hardback, Published by Skiddaw Press
Paula Rego
by John McEwen
ISBN 9780714836225
£22.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
George Romney 1734 1802
by Alex Kidson
ISBN 1855143348
£25.00 paperback, Published by National Portrait Galleries
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
The Triumph of Kurt Schwitters
by Barbara Crossley
ISBN 0953924416
£20.00 paperback, Published by The Armitt Trust
Sean Scully
by David Carrier
ISBN 0500093121
£39.95 hardback, Published by Thames & Hudson
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
by David Hockney
ISBN 9780500286388
£24.95 paperback, Published by Thames and Hudson
Stanley Spencer
by Duncan Robinson
ISBN 0714828106
£16.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
Stubbs and the Horse
by Malcolm Warner and Robin Blake
ISBN 0300104723
£30.00 harback, Published by Yale University Press
The Artist's Model from Etty to Spencer
by Martin Postle and William Vaughan
ISBN 1858940842
£29.95 hardback, Published by Merrell
The Cutting Edge of Modernity
by Gordon Samuel and Nicola Penny
ISBN 0853318662
£22.50 paperback, Published by Lund Humphries
The Scottish Colourists 1900-1930
by Philip Long, Dr. Elizabeth Cumming
ISBN 190327804
£14.95 hardback, Published by National Galleries of Scotland
The Triumph of Watercolour
by Tim Wilcox
ISBN 0856676020
£25.00 hardback, Published by Philip Wilson Publishers
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
Understanding Watercolours
by Huon L Mallalieu
ISBN 0907462391
£29.95, Published by Antique Collector's Club
From Victorian to Modern Innovation and Tradition in the Works of Vanessa Bell, Gwen John and Laura Knight
by Nunn Pamela Gerrish
ISBN 0856676233
£19.95 hardback, Published by Philip Wilson Publishers
Victorian Watercolours
by Christopher Newall
ISBN 0714828114
£16.95 paperback, Published by Phaidon Press Ltd
