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Rex Whistler 19051944 was a British artist designer and illustrator This is the catalogue of an exhibition Rex Whistler The Triumph of Fancy at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 14 April3 September 2006
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Rex Whistler 19051944 was a British artist designer and illustrator This is the catalogue of an exhibition Rex Whistler The Triumph of Fancy at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery 14 April3 September 2006
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Paul Hoberton Publishing The Salisbury Museum London 2024 First edition Paperback quarto illustrated wrappers 192 pages Approx 150 colour and bw illustrations English 280x220mm 1kg Fine as new Published to accompany an exhibition at The Salisbury Museum home of the Rex Whistler Archive The book and exhibition examine Rex Whistlers relationship with his patrons exploring the social and artistic dialogues between artist and patron The personalities who commissioned murals and paintings from Whistler represent the British artisticsocial milieu between the wars and include Sir Philip Sassoon Cecil Beaton Dorothy Wellesley Edward James Henry Chips Channon Diana Cooper the Marquess and Marchioness of Anglesey and Maud Russell Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller
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Rex Whistler was one of the most intriguing artists of the interwar years His career lasted only from 1925 until his tragically early death in the Second World War when he was thirtynine But in those two decades he established himself as an artist in many different fields and especially as the outstanding mural painter of the period His first big mural painted while he was still a student at the Slade School of Art was for the Tate Gallery restaurant He went on to paint many others including those at Port Lympne in Kent Dorneywood in Buckinghamshire and his masterpiece Plas Newydd on the Isle of AngleseyHe was also an acclaimed portrait painter of people and of their houses He designed sets for opera the theatre and ballet most famously Fidelio at Covent Garden Victoria Regina on Broadway and the Royal Ballets Rakes Progress illustrations and book jackets for over a hundred books numerous advertisements greetings telegrams for the Post Office and even a toile de jouy that is still in production to this day Among his most memorable portraits are those of the beautiful Lady Caroline Paget the love of his lifeAmidst all this he found time to sparkle as one of the wittiest and most elegant of the bright young things until at the outbreak of war he joined the Welsh Guards and was transformed into a dedicated and outstandingly courageous tank troop commander in the Guards Armoured Division He was killed by a mortar bomb blast in Normandy on 18 July 1944Although Rex Whistlers reputation stand high today and his work is avidly collected much of it is in private hands and so comparatively little known The authors Hugh and Mirabel Cecil have tracked down all of his murals in private collections and on public display They have traced his later dramatic portraits and war art painted while he was in the army and have been given access to many unpublished sources both letters and the memories of his many devoted friends
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Rex Whistler was one of the most intriguing artists of the interwar years His career lasted only from 1925 until his tragically early death in the Second World War when he was thirtynine But in those two decades he established himself as an artist in many different fields and especially as the outstanding mural painter of the period His first big mural painted while he was still a student at the Slade School of Art was for the Tate Gallery restaurant He went on to paint many others including those at Port Lympne in Kent Dorneywood in Buckinghamshire and his masterpiece Plas Newydd on the Isle of AngleseyHe was also an acclaimed portrait painter of people and of their houses He designed sets for opera the theatre and ballet most famously Fidelio at Covent Garden Victoria Regina on Broadway and the Royal Ballets Rakes Progress illustrations and book jackets for over a hundred books numerous advertisements greetings telegrams for the Post Office and even a toile de jouy that is still in production to this day Among his most memorable portraits are those of the beautiful Lady Caroline Paget the love of his lifeAmidst all this he found time to sparkle as one of the wittiest and most elegant of the bright young things until at the outbreak of war he joined the Welsh Guards and was transformed into a dedicated and outstandingly courageous tank troop commander in the Guards Armoured Division He was killed by a mortar bomb blast in Normandy on 18 July 1944Although Rex Whistlers reputation stand high today and his work is avidly collected much of it is in private hands and so comparatively little known The authors Hugh and Mirabel Cecil have tracked down all of his murals in private collections and on public display They have traced his later dramatic portraits and war art painted while he was in the army and have been given access to many unpublished sources both letters and the memories of his many devoted friends
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A beautifully designed slipcase containing Love and War and Family Friendship and Landscapestwo complementary volumes that are also available separately The two volumes in this boxed set celebrate the artist Rex Whistler 19051944 portrait painter designer of theater sets and costumes illustrator and the outstanding mural painter of the interwar years They describe the sources of inspiration he drew on for his work Volume 1 Family Friendship and Landscapes by Hugh Cecil describes Whistlers family influences his many friendships and the landscapes of his beloved Wessex and Italy Volume 2 Love and War by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil tells of Whistlers experiences in the years immediately before his tragic early death in battle
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A stunning boxed set facsimile edition of the little anthology of favorite poems compiled and illustrted by Rex Whistler with his friend Stephen Tennant in his years as a student at the Slade School of Art Every page of this anthology shows Rex Whistlers newfound delight in verse of a romantic kind Poe Keats Marvell de la Maare Emily Dickinson Shelley Tennyson Gray Edith Sitwell and others But though serious about the poems he could not being Rex Whistler deny himself flippancy on a title page or in a penciled comment added to Keats woebegone knightatarms Whistler made this earliest of all his illustrated books for his own pleasure It was first published almost 60 years after Whistler compiled it by Hamish Hamilton in 1981 and has been long out of print This splendid new edition is as alive with the youthful pleasure that first inspired the bright colored margins in 1923 Presented in a cltohbound slipcase this is a unique gift for Whistler aficionados and poetry lovers alike
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Beverley Nichols fans armchair gardeners and literature enthusiasts will delight in this reprint of the second book in his Allways trilogy with facsimile reproductions of Rex Whistlers original graceful illustrations and a new foreword by Roy C Dicks Nicholss humorous ruminations on life in the countryside as always are refreshing The typical Nichols gardening anecdotes and familiar characters are there as well as the authors beloved dog Whoops an inveterate spy with a habit of leaping to conclusions
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Beverley Nichols fans armchair gardeners and literature enthusiasts will delight in this reprint of the second book in his Allways trilogy with facsimile reproductions of Rex Whistlers original graceful illustrations and a new foreword by Roy C Dicks Nicholss humorous ruminations on life in the countryside as always are refreshing The typical Nichols gardening anecdotes and familiar characters are there as well as the authors beloved dog Whoops an inveterate spy with a habit of leaping to conclusions
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The winter of 1924 Edith Olivier alone for the first time at the age of 51 thought her life had come to an end For Rex Whistler a 19yearold art student life was just beginning Together they embark on an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives Gradually Ediths world opens up and she becomes a writer Her home the Daye House in a wooded corner of the Wilton estate becomes a sanctuary for Whistler and the other brilliant and beautiful younger men of her circle among them Siegfried Sassoon Stephen Tennant William Walton John Betjeman the Sitwells and Cecil Beatonfor whom she was all the muses Set against a backdrop of the madcap parties of the 1920s the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of World War IInbspand with an extraordinary cast of friends and acquaintances Anna Thomasson brings to life for the first time the fascinating and curious friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing
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The winter of 1924 Edith Olivier alone at the age of 51 thought her life had come to an end For Rex Whistler a 19yearold art student life was just beginning They were to start an intimate and unlikely friendship that would transform their lives Gradually Ediths world opened up and she became a writer Her home became a sanctuary for Whistler and other brilliant and beautiful younger menSiegfried Sassoon Stephen Tennant William Walton John Betjeman the Sitwells and Cecil Beatonfor whom she was all the muses The story is set against the backdrop of a period that spanned the madcap parties of the 1920s the sophistication of the 1930s and the drama and austerity of World War II With an extraordinary cast from the Royal Family to Tallulah Bankhead Anna Thomassons account brings to life for the first time the curious unlikely and fascinating friendship of a bluestocking and a bright young thing
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