Take It or Leave It Challenge 17: Read a book with a painting or a detail of a painting on the cover
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1LizzieD
This is a thread for the art work on our covers, and to speak about what we read too if you'd care to do that!
Here's my first, and it's a non-Virago, but a cover that is quite evocative of the novel so far! It's a detail from Man Feeding his dogs by Russell Drysdale in the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Here's my first, and it's a non-Virago, but a cover that is quite evocative of the novel so far! It's a detail from Man Feeding his dogs by Russell Drysdale in the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
2alco261
This is the cover from my current read Confessions of a Train-Watcher. What makes the cover particularly interesting is that the individual illustrated in the forground is the author, the locomotive is a NYC Hudson - one of the authors favorite steam engines, and the painting was done by one of the top railroad/industrial painters - Ted Rose
3raidergirl3
I'm reading Night Street by Kristel Thornell, but I know I won't finish it in July, so what a perfect challenge. It's actually the imagined story of Clarice Beckett, whose art is on the cover. She was an Australian painter in the very early 1900s of Melbourne.
4streamsong
I love the cover of the The Life of an Ordinary Woman, Anne Ellis's memoir of a pioneer childhood and young womanhood. The painting is a detail of ''Le tablier bleu'' by Elizabeth Nourse.
Because I didn't know anything about Elizabeth Nourse, I've copied this part of her Wikipedia page to share:
"Elizabeth Nourse (b. October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938 (aged 78)) was a realist-style genre, portrait, and landscape painter born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture. Described by her contemporaries as "the first woman painter of America" and "the dean of American woman painters in France and one of the most eminent contemporary artists of her sex," Nourse was the first American woman to be voted into the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.She also had the honor of having one of her paintings purchased by the French government and adopted into the Luxembourg Museum's permanent collection. Nourse's style was described by Los Angeles critic Henry J. Seldis as a "forerunner of social realist painting. Some of Nourse's works are displayed at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Thanks, Lizzie for encouraging me to find out more about this beautiful cover and artist!
Because I didn't know anything about Elizabeth Nourse, I've copied this part of her Wikipedia page to share:
"Elizabeth Nourse (b. October 26, 1859 – October 8, 1938 (aged 78)) was a realist-style genre, portrait, and landscape painter born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, in the Cincinnati area. She also worked in decorative painting and sculpture. Described by her contemporaries as "the first woman painter of America" and "the dean of American woman painters in France and one of the most eminent contemporary artists of her sex," Nourse was the first American woman to be voted into the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.She also had the honor of having one of her paintings purchased by the French government and adopted into the Luxembourg Museum's permanent collection. Nourse's style was described by Los Angeles critic Henry J. Seldis as a "forerunner of social realist painting. Some of Nourse's works are displayed at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Thanks, Lizzie for encouraging me to find out more about this beautiful cover and artist!
5LizzieD
You're most welcome, Janet, and thank you for showing and telling!
I've finished my book, and although it couldn't literally be a scene from the book, the cover totally reflects the tone of The Solid Mandala.
Now I may try The Curate's Wife in order to get a point for TIOLI by reading what Christina's reading. I will be back with another cover soon in any case!
I've finished my book, and although it couldn't literally be a scene from the book, the cover totally reflects the tone of The Solid Mandala.
Now I may try The Curate's Wife in order to get a point for TIOLI by reading what Christina's reading. I will be back with another cover soon in any case!
7lyzard
I have also gone with a Virago:
Painted Clay by Capel Boake
"The cover shows a detail from 'Souvenirs' by Thea Proctor - Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia."
Considered an arbiter of taste and always elegantly dressed, Thea Proctor wrote on fashion, flower arranging, colours for cars and interior decoration. She organized artists' balls in the 1920s, designed the fashionably modern Lacquer Room restaurant (1932) for Farmer & Co. Ltd and produced theatre décor in the 1940s. In her latter years she continued to encourage young and innovative artists and to paint, in a looser, sensuous manner, carried out portrait commissions, exhibited regularly with the Macquarie Galleries and promoted the neglected work of her relation John Peter Russell. She commented: 'I am not the sort of person who could sit at home and knit socks'.
Painted Clay by Capel Boake
"The cover shows a detail from 'Souvenirs' by Thea Proctor - Collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia."
Considered an arbiter of taste and always elegantly dressed, Thea Proctor wrote on fashion, flower arranging, colours for cars and interior decoration. She organized artists' balls in the 1920s, designed the fashionably modern Lacquer Room restaurant (1932) for Farmer & Co. Ltd and produced theatre décor in the 1940s. In her latter years she continued to encourage young and innovative artists and to paint, in a looser, sensuous manner, carried out portrait commissions, exhibited regularly with the Macquarie Galleries and promoted the neglected work of her relation John Peter Russell. She commented: 'I am not the sort of person who could sit at home and knit socks'.
8paulstalder
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst : Novelle by Uwe Timm
The cover shows part of a picture by Albert Aereboe: Die rote Jacke (the red jacket)
The cover shows part of a picture by Albert Aereboe: Die rote Jacke (the red jacket)
9Donna828
The Meadow by James Galvin. 4.2 stars.
The detail on this cover is an original illustration by one of the characters in the memoir about the land and the author's neighbors in this rural area of Northern Colorado. I originally listened to the book on a trip to CO three years ago and got to choose my own cover for my thread. I went for the colorful version and commented on the bleakness of this cover. However, when I purchased the book for my collection, I came to love this "quieter" cover because it fit the subdued prose of the book and I learned that the gate detail had been painted by Clara, the sister of one of the characters. I got to know Clara a little bit through some journal extracts. *SPOILER* Unfortunately, her life had a sad ending.
10inge87
I'm currently working my way through Goldenes Zeitalter (Golden Age), the catalogue from an exhibition of Dutch group portraits from the Amsterdam Historical Museum that I saw in January 2011 in Munich. The cover has a wrap-around image of The Company of Captain Reynier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Blaeuw by Frans Hals and Pieter Codde.
Back Cover and Front Cover from the complete painting:
Note: The first image is from an LT copy that has the back cover of my edition as its front cover. Hence why it looks like there are two front covers.
Back Cover and Front Cover from the complete painting:
Note: The first image is from an LT copy that has the back cover of my edition as its front cover. Hence why it looks like there are two front covers.
