ID: 957
Joash Woodrow.
WOODROW, Joash: Nicholas Usherwood and Christopher P. Wood

Category: Art

Place/Publisher/Date:
Harrogate, The Joash Woodrow Collection. 2004.

Description: First edition; 4to; original illustrated card covers. 239pp; numerous colour illustrations.The work of Woodrow was discovered when the painter Christopher P. Wood came across some bound copies of The Magazine of Art, 1903 "defaced" with heavy ink drawings. The drawings were powerfully artistic. Wood discovered that this few volumes were only a small part of a library of 3,000 volumes belonging to Woodrow. Woodrow had grown incapable of looking after himself and his house in Leeds was being cleared by relatives, which it transpired contained thousands of paintings, piled high in every room. The quality of the work quickly became apparent and exhibitions soon followed in Leeds, Manchester and later in 2005 in London. Woodrow was trained at the Royal College of Art and his work is not primitive or unsophisicated, his lack of recognition until now is for a variety of reasons. A superb publication. Fine.

ISBN:09547817 0 8

Price £40.00