True to Nature
Open-air Painting in Europe 1780–1870
Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing
256 pages
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140 color plates
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10 x 9 1/2
Review Quotes
New Criterion
"[The] handsome, informative catalogue present[s] us with superlative examples, a lot of surprises, new scholarship, and interesting revelations about technique and method. The show is a visual delight that also broadens our understanding of the trajectory of European art from the time of the French Revolution to the Franco-Prussian War. . . . The excellent catalogue, with essays by the curators and several other distinguished scholars of the field, is like a crash course in nineteenth-century aesthetics. There’s also an absorbing chapter on technique and materials by the conservator Ann Hoenigswald, as well as capsule artists’ biographies."
World of Interiors
"The aim was to record the natural world in all its untamed glory, from scudding clouds to spitting volcanoes. As a new exhibition and book of their spontaneous sketches show, they were really in their elements."
Artfix Daily
"True to Nature continues to expand our understanding of this relatively unstudied, yet central, aspect of European art history."
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