Lund Humphries (2025)

15/07/2025

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In 1679, the commentator Joachim von Sandrart described Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) as a painter who had perfected the art of the miniature and of flower painting, a high and deserved honour. Posthumously, however, it is Merian’s status as an entomologist or naturalist that has garnered the most attention; she has not received her due as an artist.

Catherine Powell-Warren's book is the first to consider Merian's art and art-historical significance: her artistic range; her techniques; the rich visual rhetoric she deployed in her works; and her innovations. Merian may not have been a guild member, but she was for all intents and purposes the head of a for-profit business (a 'master'), seeing to the training of her daughters and managing a successful workshop, publishing her works, and networking to secure patrons and resources.

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Pictured: Maria Sibylla Merian, ‘Gaudy sphinx moth with grapes’, plate 34 of Maria Sybilla Meriaen Over de voortteeling en wonderbaerlyke veranderingen der Surinaemsche insecten, 1719, Printed book, hand-coloured, Getty Research Institute. Photo: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

14/07/2025

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Clara Peeters was one of the most talented and creative among the early practitioners of still-life painting in Europe in the early 17th century, and was in fact the only Flemish woman known to have focussed on this genre of painting in the early 17th century. She was also one of the few women to dedicate her professional life to painting in early modern Europe.

Alejandro Vergara-Sharp's timely book sheds light on the limitations that Clara Peeters encountered because of her gender and how she responded to them in her art, while also assessing her importance as a painter of still-life.

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Pictured: Clara Peeters, A Bouquet of flowers Oil on panel, 46 x 32 cm c. 1612 (not signed or dated) New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Friends of European Paintings, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Gifts, Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., by exchange, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc. Gift, and funds from various donors, 2020

13/07/2025

UPCOMING EVENT!
In Conversation: and Alex Hyde - on Saturday 6th September, 1.30 - 2.30pm at
https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/in-conversation-caroline-walker-and-alex-hyde/

Join artist and author Alex Hyde in conversation to celebrate the launch of the new book 'Caroline Walker: Mothering' – which officially publishes on 16th September!

This beautifully illustrated monograph is published by Lund Humphries to coincide with the major solo exhibition of Walker’s work of the same name, on show at The Hepworth Wakefield until late-October and touring to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, in November.

Artwork: Caroline Walker, Morning at Little Bugs, 2023. Oil on linen, 250 x 380cm (98.4 x 149.6in). Framed: 255 x 385.8cm (100 3/8 x 151 7/8in). © Caroline Walker. Courtesy the artist; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York; GRIMM, Amsterdam / New York / London; and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Photo by Peter Mallet.
Photo: Caroline Walker, Artist Portrait, 2025. Photo © Alix McIntosh

12/07/2025

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Mary Newcomb's world was rural East Anglia, where she managed a small mixed farm with her husband Godfrey Newcomb. The working life of the countryside engrossed her quite as much as the cycle of Nature: she noticed and relished everything, with as keen an eye for the colour of the bridesmaids' dresses at a wedding as for the yellow and brown of a dragonfly’s body.

In the opening pages of her diary, Newcomb wrote: 'I wanted … to remind ourselves that – in our haste – in this century – we may not give time to pause and look – and may pass on our way unheeding'. The beautiful book – Mary Newcomb: Drawing from Observation – compiled by the artist's daughter and grandson, reveals Mary Newcomb as an acute observer of her surroundings, reproducing her copious sketches alongside more finished paintings and short diary extracts to draw out the many themes which preoccupied her throughout her career as an artist.

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Image: Mary Newcomb, Rook, Watercolour 1, Watercolour and Pencil on paper, 10 x 12.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist.

11/07/2025

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Having travelled extensively throughout his life, artist Keith Grant has drawn inspiration from landscapes from Antarctica to the tropics... While attracted to northerly territories (he has lived in Norway since 1996), the subject matter of Grant's bold images varies from marine volcanoes and rainforests to icebergs and glaciers. Dynamic and vital, elemental palettes conjure up abstracted fiery drama to figurative icy stillness.

Seen collectively, the work reveals a creative energy that finds many forms of expression. This translates into an original visual language that questions and probes how we see the world around us. Much more than images, Grant's remarkable artistic contribution not only provides paintings that capture the world's beauty, but also extend our understanding of the environment, climate and the fundamental importance of nature.

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Image: Keith Grant, Fish Bird Duality VII, 2021, Oil on linen, 94.5 × 162.5 cm. Photo: Kjell Bitusøyl.

10/07/2025

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Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). In the book, 'A Kurt Jackson Bestiary', Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna.

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Image: Kurt Jackson, Cornish coastal cattle, October 2012, Acrylic on board, 22 X 23 cm (8 5/8 x 9 in). Courtesy of Kurt Jackson. Reproduced in A Kurt Jackson Bestiary, Lund Humphries 2015.

09/07/2025

The summer edition of Art HERstory Magazine honors the courage, creativity & independence of Portuguese Baroque artist Josefa de Obidos, with an article written by Lund Humphries commissioning editor for Art History, Erika Gaffney!

Read about Art HERstory Mag here: https://artherstorymagazine.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadoMu__98nGHZmhPEgpbZjDzgXpeXc7oquNvd4CISfu_Pl76SErV1cgozREgQ_aem_yq9GqEwqGxt4tc7Xn8_B4A

09/07/2025

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Nineteenth-century botanical painter Marianne North (1830-1890) was an unconventional botanical painter and a technically progressive artist who melded differing stylistic approaches, techniques and media from both scientific and aesthetic perspectives.
Lund Humphries' 'Marianne North: A Victorian Painter for the 21st Century' by Lynne Howarth-Gladston is the first study to address Marianne North from an art historical perspective, particularly in terms of her process of making. It situates Marianne North as a ground-breaking woman artist and identifier of new plant species, connected with a global community of progressive scientists, natural historians, and philosophers.

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Pictured: Marianne North, Forest scene, Matang, Sarawak, Borneo, oil on board, H 35.3 x W 25 cm, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew © RBG Kew

08/07/2025

Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi was born in 1593 in Rome.

Sheila Barker's beautifully illustrated monograph on the artist – part of our Illuminating Women Artists series - examines the entire career of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c.1654), and includes newly discovered paintings by the artist. Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile career.

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Image: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), c.1638-9, oil on canvas, 98.6 x 75.2 cm (38 13/16 x 29 5/8 in), The Royal Collection Trust, London. Second image: book cover featuring Artemisia Gentileschi's painting Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, c.1623–5.

08/07/2025

PUBLISHED TODAY! 'Performance in the Museum' by Pierre Saurisse 📘

'Performance in the Museum' charts the main stages of the inclusion of performance in the museum from the 1960s to the present day, offering a thought-provoking and highly readable assessment of some fundamental questions in contemporary curatorial practice. While performance emerged in the late 1960s as an anti-institutional form of art, it has recently gained an extraordinary visibility in contemporary art museums. This book focuses on four specific areas affecting museums: the staging of live performance within exhibitions; the conservation of performance; the acquisition of performance works; and research on performance.

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07/07/2025

BACK IN STOCK! Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Barbara Hepworth's death, BARBARA HEPWORTH: THE PLASTERS – The Gift to Wakefield, edited by Sophie Bowness, is now available once again in paperback.

This fascinating book combines a fully illustrated catalogue of a little-known collection of 44 plasters (and other prototypes) by Barbara Hepworth, generously gifted to The Hepworth Wakefield by the Hepworth Estate.

To mark the book's availability, we've published a blogpost on Barbara Hepworth, St Ives, and Lund Humphries' publishing - read here: https://www.lundhumphries.com/blogs/features/barbara-hepworth-and-the-st-ives-story-1

IN OTHER HEPWORTH NEWS . . .
The Hepworth Wakefield’s 10th anniversary exhibition Art and Life is opening at its next venue, the Fondation Maeght in France, at the end of the June.

A former cinema, dance hall and shared community space, the Palais de Danse was bought by Barbara Hepworth in 1961 to use as her second studio. Having remained untouched since Hepworth’s death in 1975, the building was recently given to Tate by the artist's family and is in the process of being re-imagined as a space to showcase and build on her artistic legacy.
'Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters' features a lot of archival photographs of Hepworth working in her Palais de Danse studio (see more in our blogpost).

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