No comments about The Collecting Eye of Seymour Stein [Sotheby's, Dec. 11, 2003].

No comments about Cicada May/June 2007.

No comments about Great Drawings From the Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

No comments about The Soul of the Rose Mouse Pad.

No comments about Murielle: The Story of a Model, a Painting, and the Artistry of John William Waterhouse.

No comments about John William Waterhouse 2007 Calendar.

5 comments about John William Waterhouse 2008 Calendar (Pomeganate Calendar).

1. I've admired J.W. Waterhouse's ethereally beautiful paintings for a number of years. This calendar is the latest in a line of lovely productions. I'm not an artist or an art historian, but I like Waterhouse's paintings because they typically feature beautiful scenery and people and suggest high emotional involvement. The calendar's compilers have done a good job of finding different paintings from year to year, so that one is not faced with the same depiction very often.



2. I received the John William Waterhouse 2008 calendar for Christmas and can't wait for New Year's Day to come, so I can put it up. Pomegranate, a major publisher of art products, has outdone themselves with their calendar devoted to the beloved Victorian artist who painted in the style of the Pre-Raphaelites. The prints of Waterhouse's paintings featured here are superbly bright and true in quality; I have seen other prints of THISBE, but none as fine as Pomegranate's. This 2008 edition of the calendar is special as it includes some of Waterhouse's most popular paintings (OPHELIA and THE LADY OF SHALOTT, which adorns the cover) as well as some of his least frequently reproduced paintings (THE ENCHANTED GARDEN, A SONG OF SPRINGTIME, and JULIET). When the year is up, I plan to have a couple of these rarer prints removed from the calendar, then matted and framed; they will be valuable additions to my Waterhouse print collection.
   
   The title, year, and current location of each painting is printed at the bottom of each month-page. The John William Waterhouse calendar will enhance your wall just as a framed painting would. It is truly a work of art, and I look forward to receiving it each Christmas!



3. The artwork in this calendar will make the passing of time seem beautiful no matter how your life is going! I should have purchased one for myself, this one was a gift.



4. Very, Very nice. I love it! Rich colors and large enough to enjoy.



5. This ia a beautiful calender that is worth some seperate picture mounts from the monthly offerings. It is delivered on time and in excellent shape from the seller. If you like Midevial or Romantic themes, this calender is for you!

No comments about John William Waterhouse: A Book of Postcards.

5 comments about J W Waterhouse.

1. During my education and professional life as an artist and professor of art the work of the Pre-Raphaelites and their contemporaries especially Waterhouse was/is extremely appealing and inspirational to me and many of my peers who are painters or illustrators. His work is among the best of his and any era since. The lavish reproductions in this book do homage to the wonderful God-given ability of the artist. Waterhouse's nymphs, faeries and women are innocent, gorgeous, and fetching, his colors deep, dark and lush, his men heroic and altruistic. If you love PreRaphaelite era art, Romanticism, mythical stories skillfully representated in figure art, this is the book for you. Though I bought the book for the reproductions, I recently read the text and found it helpful.



2. I find Waterhouse the greatest of the late 19th-century British painters. His women are full of life. He was a master at capturing the slightest expression to convey the personalities of his models. His compositions are superb. Paintings such as the 1888 "The Lady of Shalott" and the 1894 treatment of the same subject are as powerful as they are beautiful.

   Hobson makes his admiration of Waterhouse's paintings obvious. This makes the book a very enjoyable read. It is a wonderful introduction to Waterhouse's work. Hobson spends a lot of time discussing paintings--this is something that is too often forgotten in art history texts. He identifies aspects of Waterhouse's compositions that help make his paintings outstanding. He describes the literary sources of Waterhouse's subjects. He mentions the artists who influenced Waterhouse's style. The essays are clear and well-organized. Anyone who is interested in Waterhouse's work should read this book.




3. I think I made a mistake when ordering and accidentally got this book instead of Trippi's hardcover. The narrative is interesting and insightful, but the reproductions are an outrage. Black and white for Circe Ividiosa and for (gasp) THE MAGIC CIRCLE??? Come on! Black and white should only be used to make a point about light and shade or for lesser works and studies. But there are several masterworks reproduced in B/W in this book. Also, the color reproductions are lousy as well. 3 stars overall out of respect for the author, but 1 star for the plates.



4. If you're looking for a brief intro into who Waterhouse was and his paintings, then this book is for you. If however, you want to see his paintings in color and larger sizes, then do not get this book. This book is an overview of Waterhouse's life and paintings, not the complete story. For the complete story and paintings, buy Trippi's book instead.
   
   The text is laid out well and in sequence of Waterhouse's life. I found myself compelled to read the entire book in a short time.
   
   There are some color pictures, but they are not as vibrant as the Trippi book. Many of the pictures are black and white and some are quite small, fitting into the margins. It was frustrating to see the b&W pictures and to try to imagine what they were really supposed to look like. But if all you want is an overview and a sampling of Waterhouse's art, then this book may be more manageable than Trippi's.



5. Anthony Hobson was my father and I watched as he researched, visited, photographed, wrote and re-wrote the text for this book. It was a labour of love, bringing to the fore an artist who had been deeply unfashionable for many years - out of step with the tastes of the intervening times.
   His writing style was characterised by a passionionate, often wryly humourous but always very readable style.
   His research discovered and brought to the public eye, paintings that hadn't been seen for a generation, paintings found in lofts and attics, and in private family collections. He met an elderly lady who had sat for Waterhouse when she was a child and recorded her memories of this event in her young life.
   Along side the personal aspect of the work runs the academic thread of rigorous research into the literary themes that underpin so much of Waterhouses paintings, and the placing of all of this in context with other artists of the period and before.
   My father fell in love with the sumptuous beauty and incredible technical skill of Waterhouses work. He was very aware of the power of images and spent a great deal of time working on the reproductions included in the book. What you have to realise is that this was the best that could be done at the time. Colour printing has moved on enormously since this book was published. The costs and quality are at vastly different levels to those available to authors today. He would be the first one to say that ANY black and white reproduction of this artists work could never remotely do them justice, but he worked with what was do-able and in giving a glimpse of long unappreciated paintings, he was able to start an army of fans on their way to a well-deserved re-assessment of Waterhouse.

4 comments about The Women of Waterhouse: 24 Cards.

1. I was thrilled to find this art card book in the gift shop of the National Gallery here in Washington, DC. John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) is my favorite artist; I own several big prints of his paintings, and the small, frame-able art cards in THE WOMEN OF WATERHOUSE are a valuable addition to my collection. Represented here are some of the most iconic paintings of the Victorian and Edwardian eras: OPHELIA, MIRANDA, LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, THE LADY OF SHALOTT, THE SOUL OF THE ROSE, SAINT CECILIA. But ultimately, what makes the book worth far more than the few dollars I paid for it are the relatively rare pictures, those that are hard if not impossible to find in print form; these include the early masterpiece ST. EULALIA and the later THE ANNUNCIATION, as well as WINDFLOWERS, A TALE FROM THE DECAMERON, a different OPHELIA, and the un-bowdlerized version of THE CRYSTAL BALL. The look of the rare cards is superb, too, the colors true and vivid. In fact, only SAINT CECILIA and the first LADY OF SHALOTT have problems in this regard, the one being too dark and the other too light in color. Those titles are much better reproduced in the boxed collection J.W. WATERHOUSE: MYTH AND ROMANCE, also sold by Amazon.com. So if you are a Waterhouse admirer and buy both THE WOMEN OF WATERHOUSE and MYTH AND ROMANCE, you should end up fully satisfied.



2. If you love art by John William Waterhouse than you definitely want these.
   If you cannot afford expensive posters, books etc. then these will do it for you. You can frame them or use them in forms of art that you create.
   The way that he paints and the colors he uses are evident in these post cards. He was a great artist and had a knack for choosing the best subjects for his paintings.
   
   I received these quicking and without delay.



3. I love Waterhouse, and these art cards are a beautiful selection of some of his best works. My one complaint is that some of the cards have less-than-brilliant colors. Still, I find them enchanting and I've already used them as cards for friends.



4. Do not purchase this art-work. I thought it was going to be a post-card book. I have a wonderful postcard art book to compare to. THis is a sheet of dark art. Also there is blurring.
   
   Sophie