Books by Alison Bevan

This major new book explores what the term ‘Newlyn School’ really means, celebrating the colony’s unique and vital role in British art history while exploring its national and international context. From its beginnings firmly rooted in plein-air rural realism, capturing the lives of the local fishing and farming communities with exquisite beauty and often heart-rending veracity, we see how this remote Cornish art colony was the crucible for pioneering artists of both genders to shape the history of British art.

Drawing mainly on the extensive holdings Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, and the Bowerman Collection (privately collected art for public benefit). The sumptuous illustrations feature works by leading members of the core ‘School’, including Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes, Walter Langley, Frank Bramley and Edwin Harris, together with paintings by much-loved artists from the second flowering of the colony, such as Dod Procter, SJ ‘Lamorna’ Birch and Dame Laura Knight.