Family, Friendships, Landscapes Rex Whistler: Inspiration
Family, Friendships, Landscapes Rex Whistler: Inspiration
- ISBN 13:
9781910258194
- ISBN 10:
1910258199
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 07/01/2015
- Publisher: Pimpernel Press
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Summary
The author of In Search of Rex Whistler explores the influences behind Whistler's works
The artist Rex Whistler (1905−1944) loved creating imaginary landscapes, whether for his murals or for portraits or book illustrations. But his inspiration came from the real landscapes of Italy, the architecture of Rome and, in England, from the countryside of Wiltshire and Dorset. It was against these backgrounds, too, that his closest friendships were formed, with Stephen Tennant, Cecil Beaton, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edith Olivier and with the writer and academic Lord David Cecil. Family, Friendships, Landscapes, like its companion volume, Love and War, includes much previously unpublished material, in this case largely from Rome and from the collection of the Paget family, at Plas Newydd on the Isle of Anglesey, where Whistler painted his most famous mural.