Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth the Queen MotherThis is the first catalogue devoted to the extraordinary art collection formed by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The watercolours and drawings illustrated here, many for the first time, reflect the wide range of Queen Elizabeth's personal interests and her enthusiastic patronage of contemporary artists from the 1930s onwards. This catalogue includes a substantial and lavishly illustrated introduction which investigates Queen Elizabeth's approach to art collecting, particularly her strong support for the arts during the Second World War. Private letters from this period written by her close friends - patrons Sir Kenneth Clark, Sir Jasper Ridley, Sir Osbert Sitwell, and artists Rex Whistler, Augustus John and Edward Seago - are quoted for the first time. Each of the 73 drawings and watercolours is illustrated in colour. |
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Augustus John Beaton bodycolour Buckingham Palace Clarence House Clark to Queen colour contemporary art David Duchess of York Duke Edward Seago Elizabeth The Queen EXHIBITION London Figure Haig HM The Queen ink and watercolour John Bratby John Piper July Kenneth Clark King George King's Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon landscape letter lower left Mabel Hankey Majesty Max Beerbohm Messel National Gallery Norma Bull organised Owen Morshead painter Paul Sandby pen and ink Pencil and watercolour Piper's watercolours portrait PROVENANCE Commissioned PROVENANCE Presented PROVENANCE Purchased Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth's collection Queen Mother RA QEQM/PRIV/CSP/PAL RA QEQM/PRIV/PIC RCIN Recording Britain Rex Whistler Rothenstein Royal Academy Royal Collection Royal Lodge Royal Watercolour Society Sandringham Signed and dated Signed bottom right Signed lower right sketches Tate Gallery topographical Topolski Varley visited watercolour and bodycolour watercolour and white watercolours and drawings watercolours of Windsor white bodycolour William Windsor Castle Windsor Great Park wrote