Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 16 April - 4 Sept. 2011, and at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 19 Sept. 2011 - 15 Jan. 2012.The moonlit, urban scenes of Leeds born John Atkinson Grimshaw have intrigued viewers since they were first painted.This exhibition brings together 60 works, including pictures that had disappeared for many years. Paintings and drawings by Grimshaw's talented sons and daughter are also included, with newly discovered family photographs revealing the private side of his life.The exhibition presents compelling aspects of Grimshaw's early landscapes and his Pre-Raphaelite eye for detail, his excitement with the industrial and suburban aspects of the Victorian city, and later works that introduce the female figure.The exhibition concludes with tiny harmonic beach scenes capturing sun, snow, and mist.Over a century later, photographer Liza Dracup has been inspired to produce new images in response to Atkinson Grimshaw's Moonlights. Dracup uses her camera as a creative tool to track the landscape at night, both natural and artificial, in her exhibition, Chasing the Gloaming.A new book Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight accompanies the exhibition, edited by Jane Sellars.source: http://art.yorkshire.com/exhibitions/...See video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWIKzc...