Stubbs & the Horse
by Malcolm Warner
from Kimbell Art Museum
Taking full account of the associations and status of the “noble horse” in eighteenth-century Britain and the colorful world of its devotees—both high and low—the authors examine Stubbs’s work from different points of view and offer many fresh interpretations. Malcolm Warner discusses how horses were regarded in Britain in Stubbs’s time, the unexpected connection between his horse-and-lion compositions and the creation of the English thoroughbred, and his classicism. Robin Blake examines the young Whig noblemen who were Stubbs’s first patrons, the grooms, jockeys, trainers, and other attendants who appear in his horse portraits, and his curious dealings with the Prince of Wales. The book also includes an essay by conservators Lance Mayer and Gay Myers on Stubbs’s experiments with wax and enamel.
For admirers of Stubbs’s art, eighteenth-century English painting, and horses, this book is an essential addition to their bookshelves.
The Art of George Stubbs
by Venetia Morrison
from Wellfleet Press
Known in his life as "Mr. Stubbs the horse painter", it is only in the last fifty years that the art world has rejected this derogatory assessment of this versatile painter, illustrator, engraver, and outstanding chronicler of nature. Lavish illustrations - covering the full range of his work from the celebrated horse images to portraits, paintings of wild animals, anatomical engravings and experimental work on ceramics- reveal the artist's genius and show why he can rightfully stand beside Turner and William Blake as an artist sure of his own particular vision.
George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue Raisonne (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
by Judy Egerton
from Yale University Press
The Rhinoceros from Durer to Stubbs, 1515-1799: An Aspect of the Exotic
George Stubbs in the Collection of Paul Mellon: A Memorial Exhibition (Yale Centre for British Art)
George Stubbs
by Martin Myrone
from Tate
Though the English artist George Stubbs (1724-1806) was once dismissed as "merely" an animal painter, his familiar subjects--racehorses, lions, and scenes of gentlemanly hunting and shooting--are highly popular today. This detailed study of Stubbs's work reaffirms his importance and reveals him to be a progressive artist whose concerns with both scientific discovery and art history set him at odds with the artistic establishment of his day.
George Stubbs and the Wide Creation: Animals, people and places in the life of George Stubbs, 1724-1806
by Robin Blake
from Chatto & Windus
Illuminating and highly enjoyable biography of Stubbs, which places him in the context of eighteenth-century England. George Stubbs tirelessly studied and explored the natural world, and looked for new ways of representing it.
A Memoir of George Stubbs
by Ozias Humphry
from Pallas Athene
BRITISH SPORTING PRINTS : Featuring Henry Alken, Robert Pollard, James Barender, James Pollard, F.C. Turner, George Stubbs, and Sir John Dean Paul.
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