Graham's Leicestershire
Signed bound book with slipcase.
Size in slipcase 36.5 x 38.5 cm
In 1975, Bill Gadsby of the Gadsby Gallery Leicester commissioned Rigby Graham to make some twenty paintings depicting his view of Leicestershire. They were for reproduction in a proposed book on the county, a homage to the lithographer John Flower who had done similar 150 years previously in his Views of Ancient Buildings in the Town and County of Leicester.
Gadsby’s idea was inspired but he should perhaps have known his artist better. It is a tribute both to his courage and the depth of his pocket that he stayed with the project as it grew beyond his wildest expectations; for when the book was finally published in 1980 it contained over one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings and prints by Graham who had also responded to Gadsby’s request for a little text to go with the pictures with a lively and authoritative eighty thousand words.
The project was a tour de force; Graham’s painting and text carefully put together by Trevor Hickman at his Sycamore Press.
At the launch of the book the historian Professor Jack Simmons declared that during its making Graham’s view has become a vision. One has to go back to 1823 and Turner’s Richmondshire to find a topographical book of such stature.
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Signed bound book with slipcase.
Size in slipcase 36.5 x 38.5 cm
In 1975, Bill Gadsby of the Gadsby Gallery Leicester commissioned Rigby Graham to make some twenty paintings depicting his view of Leicestershire. They were for reproduction in a proposed book on the county, a homage to the lithographer John Flower who had done similar 150 years previously in his Views of Ancient Buildings in the Town and County of Leicester.
Gadsby’s idea was inspired but he should perhaps have known his artist better. It is a tribute both to his courage and the depth of his pocket that he stayed with the project as it grew beyond his wildest expectations; for when the book was finally published in 1980 it contained over one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings and prints by Graham who had also responded to Gadsby’s request for a little text to go with the pictures with a lively and authoritative eighty thousand words.
The project was a tour de force; Graham’s painting and text carefully put together by Trevor Hickman at his Sycamore Press.
At the launch of the book the historian Professor Jack Simmons declared that during its making Graham’s view has become a vision. One has to go back to 1823 and Turner’s Richmondshire to find a topographical book of such stature.
