The Paintings of J. H. Amshewitz R.B.A. by Sarah Briana Amshewitz
Collectors Copy. Signed and dated inscription by the Author Sarah Briana Amshewitz.
The Paintings of J. H. Amshewitz R.B.A. by Sarah Briana Amshewitz.
Hardcover
Publisher: (London: B. T. Batsford, 1951), 1951
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; printed Dust jacket with pictorial onlay 66 pages; numerous plates, some of which in colour. Price-clipped Dust jacket rather faded and slightly edgeworn but still in very good shape. Protected with Cellophane.
Book is good, clean, bright and tightly bound. Previous owner’s name on inside front cover, some light foxing on the preliminary pages.
Born Ramsgate, England, 1882. Amshewitz studied at the Art Academy in Edinburgh, at the RA Schools under John Singer Sargant, and was elected to the RBA in 1914. He was considered a South African artist, even though he only lived in South Africa from 1916 to 1922, and again from 1936 until his death in 1942.
"The numerous colour and black and white illustrations to this book give a representative selection from Amshewitz's life work. Ten of the plates are in full colour and there are more than 80 monochrome reproductions of murals, portraits, drawings, water-colours and paintings. These reproductions form a particularly impressive record of Amshewitz's work in South Africa, an aspect of his oeuvre which is comparatively little known in England. The text, by the painter's wife, gives an intimate and fascinating account of J. H. Amshewitz's life, his struggles and successes, and his many friends. The whole book will provide a valued record of Amshewitz's work for the many admirers of his art."
