LCW’s 1947 memoir of her life as a gallerist; at the Wertheim Gallery she showed a swathe of English Modernist artists – Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Cedric Morris et alia. With essays by Frances Spalding, Ariane Bankes and Karen Taylor and many illustrations, this is published to coincide with an exhibition this summer at the Towner Eastbourne – ‘A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim, Patron, Collector, Gallerist’.
Adventure in Art
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£30.00
Edition:Hardback978191269017601/06/2022
Categories: 06. Summer Books 2022: Art & Photography, Art, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Summer Books 2022
Tags: C20th Art, Memoir, Women In Art
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