Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958: The Life and Work of Lucy Kemp-Welch, Painter of Horses

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Dr David Boyd Haycock

Lucy Kemp-Welch 1869-1958

The Life and Work of Lucy Kemp-Welch, Painter of Horses

Dr David Boyd Haycock

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ACC Art Books
01 May 2023

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Over the course of a long and very successful career spanning the first half of the 20th century, Lucy Kemp-Welch established herself as one of the leading equestrian painters at work in the UK and one of the country's best-known women artists. David Boyd Haycock's new, extensively illustrated biography of Kemp-Welch brings this remarkable artist and her work back into sharp focus.

Born in 1869, Kemp-Welch first came to the art establishment's attention in 1897 when her immense painting, Colt Hunting in the New Forest, caused a sensation at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition; the work was bought for the Nation by the Chantry Bequest in the year of exhibition. In 1915, she illustrated Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, and was commissioned to paint images for the Government during the First World War. Later, the mural Women's Work in the Great War, was placed in the Royal Exchange in London, where it remains to this day.

Respected art writer and curator Boyd-Haycock shines new light on Kemp-Welch's life, writing from a 21st-century perspective and reflecting on her as a female painter in a male-dominated environment. Alongside Kemp-Welch's paintings, the book will feature exclusive period photographs of the artist herself, shown at work and in her studio.

AUTHOR: Dr David Boyd Haycock is a freelance author and curator, specialising in 20th-century British art. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including Paul Nash (Tate Publishing, 2001/2016) and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009), short-listed by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in 2010 as Best Work of Non-Fiction. As well as having curated exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Poole Museum and Salisbury Museum, he has also recently completed a new biography of the Welsh artist, Augustus John.

SELLING POINTS: .

The definitive biography of one of Britain's finest equestrian painters .

Redefining the legacy of a woman painter at work in a male-dominated environment .

Features previously unpublished photographs of the artist at work .

Set to publish alongside an exhibition of Lucy Kemp-Welch's work

By: Dr David Boyd Haycock
Imprint: ACC Art Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 290mm, Width: 245mm,
Weight: 1.612kg
ISBN: 9781788842242
ISBN 10: 1788842243
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Foreword by Sir John Kemp-Welch 7 Introduction by David Messum 9 Preface 11 Chapter 1 Origins 21 Chapter 2 The Herkomer School 43 Chapter 3 Colt Hunting 61 Chapter 4 Love and Life 87 Chapter 5 In Open Country 105 Chapter 6 Serious Understanding 123 Chapter 7 War 139 Chapter 8 Days of Crowded Life 173 Epilogue 201 Interview with Lucy Kemp-Welch 1910 205 Endnotes 210 Bibliography 219 List of Works 220 Index 221 Acknowledgements 224

Dr David Boyd Haycock is a freelance author and curator, specialising in 20th-century British art. He is the author of a number of highly successful books, including Paul Nash (Tate Publishing, 2001/2016) and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009), short-listed by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain in 2010 as Best Work of Non-Fiction. As well as having curated exhibitions at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Poole Museum and Salisbury Museum, he has also recently completed a new biography of the Welsh artist, Augustus John.