Constable's Skies: Paintings and Sketches by John Constable

A beautifully designed gift book devoted to John Constable’s studies of skies. The Hay WainSalisbury Cathedral from the MeadowsIn a letter to friend John Fisher, written in 1821, Constable commented, “That landscape painter who does not make his skies a very material part of his composition, neglects to avail himself of one of his greatest aids . . . It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.”Constable’s Skies

• | Author: Mark Evans
• | Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2018
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780500480328
• | ISBN-10: 050048032X