Ben Nicholson 1894-1982 - ACE151.7

Landscape sketch; commentary on Nicholson’s subsequent travelling and "continual flow of drawings" over the next twenty years. More sketches and drawings, some from Greece or Turkey, including 1967 (Patmos Monastery) (1967); Italian subjects; Vogler describes how Nicholson would absorb atmosphere before beginning work; photographs of him drawing. Drawings; view from the Ticino house. Yorkshire church and drawing. Photograph of Nicholson walking in the Dales. Rievaulx Abbey, which "inspired some of his finest drawings": view of the ruins and drawing of the same aspect. River. Leslie Martin’s converted mill at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, where Nicholson stayed after leaving Switzerland in 1971. Angela Verren talks about Nicholson’s love of certain parts of the English countryside. Nicholson’s flat in Hampstead. Verren explains how Nicholson’s purchase of his plumber’s tools set him off on a new creative period, in which he produced oil-washed drawings based on their shapes. The "five forms" side by side; Verren describes the differences between the different pictures, some of which she feels have "rather an aggressive quality": others images of these shapes.