A delightful catalogue to the recent exhibition held in Brecon, which looked at the two years Jones spent in in a small village in the Black Mountains in the mid-1920s, recovering (somewhat) from the trauma of the trenches in WW1. There he developed his dreamy, lyrical style of fluid drawing and opalescent washes of watercolour. Many illustrations.
Hill-Rhythms: David Jones & Capel-y-ffin
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£9.95
Edition:Paperback978199964746901/07/2023
Categories: Art, New Paperbacks
Tags: C20th Art, Exhibition Catalogues, Illustrious Illustrators, Plain Glorious
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