François Didot
François Didot , 1689-1757, Parisian printer. The son of a printer, Denis Didot, he was the first of the family to win fame in his craft. His son, François Ambroise Didot, 1730-1804, was said by Benjamin Franklin Bache to be the best printer of his time. Bache was apprenticed to Didot by his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin. The scholarly and typographic excellence of Didot's books is unquestioned. Influenced by the work of Baskerville , he designed type in the modern, pseudoclassical style, and his work in turn influenced that of Bodoni . Didot improved the point system of measuring and naming sizes of type, first employed by Pierre Simon Fournier, and secured its general adoption in France. His sons, Pierre Didot, 1761-1853, and Firmin Didot, 1764-1836, continued the family tradition, producing handsome books, mostly classics, with well-chosen texts conscientiously and skillfully edited. The Didot family never overlooked the requirements of students and general readers for good but inexpensive books. Firmin Didot was the first in France to print books from stereotype plates, a process he improved and named, enabling him to make less expensive books. His sons followed him in the family business.
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Sutherland's belated homecoming: renewed interest in painter Graham Sutherland's work has led to a recent series of U.K. exhibitions marking the centenary of his birth.(Report From England)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; During the 1940s and '50s, Graham Sutherland (1903-1980) was widely regarded...s depressed postwar period, Sutherland, along with Henry Moore, was...international avant-garde. Sutherland's colorful, quasi-abstract...
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Plight of homeless art collection; PAINTING: Graham Sutherland's works in need of permanent base.(Arts)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 10/20/2001; 700+ words
; ...had inspired him to paint. Graham Sutherland always wanted his work to go...chairman of the Friends of Graham Sutherland Gallery, said although he was...possible." Work a dying gift GRAHAM SUTHERLAND first discovered Pembrokeshire...
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Visual Arts: A thorny reputation The paintings of the once-fashionable Graham Sutherland have fallen fro m favour. Is it time for a reassessment?
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/4/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...front of a large oil painting by Graham Sutherland, one of the 40 canvases in a...the first major showing of Sutherland's work in this country for...Gandhi, when you could get a Sutherland of this size for, well, pounds...
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Art: Private View Graham Sutherland
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/1/1999; ; 422 words
; Graham Sutherland Crane Kalman Gallery, London SW3...pronounced that in the early work of Graham Sutherland. He began life as a printmaker in...reputation is ripe for reassessment. Graham Sutherland, Crane Kalman Gallery, 178 Brompton...
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Fatally flawed by time He used to be talked about in the same breath as Henry Moore. Whatever happened to Graham Sutherland? By David Cohen
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/24/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...some historic irony in staging a Graham Sutherland retrospective at the Picasso...the artist. In his heyday, Sutherland's name was spoken in the same...in the Forties. At his best, Sutherland was the creator of a tough...
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Graham Sutherland at the Musee Picasso.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...This was the first full-scale Graham Sutherland retrospective in France since...an ideal place to view work by Sutherland, who moved to the Cote d'Azur...Also on view were several of Sutherland's well-known "Thorn Trees...
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Graham Sutherland at Guillaume Gallozzi. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), the British artist...and printmaker. This exhibition of Sutherland's works on paper spanned the artist...longing in the face of human atrocity. Sutherland's early, enigmatic etchings of the...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Campus building is named after cathedral tapestry artist Graham Sutherland.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 10/16/2001; 528 words
; ...life and achievements of artist Graham Sutherland by re-naming one of the campus...of Yattendon, who purchased Sutherland's great collection of studies...Birmingham Post & Mail. Graham Sutherland was born in London in 1903 and...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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A dark imagination in need of the light of the sun; Dulwich Picture Gallery has assembled some wonderful and unknown paintings by Graham Sutherland but suddenly stops short.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 8/12/2005; 700+ words
; ...current exhibition devoted to Graham Sutherland. Born in 1903, and in neighbouring...beyond promising "to restore Sutherland's reputation", beyond producing...partial account" that omits Sutherland's religious imagery, most...
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Exhibition of prints showcases some of Wales' biggest artistic names; Anew exhibition of artists' prints draws together original work by some of the greatest names in the past century of British art, including Graham Sutherland, Ceri Richards and Frank Brangwyn. Jenny White takes a look at the show Box Office arts & entertainment.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 1/12/2009; 700+ words
; ...and original watercolours by Graham Sutherland rub shoulders with lithographs...leading Neo-Romantic artist, Graham Sutherland (1903-80), found a sustained...CAPTION(S): CRYPTIC: Graham Sutherland's The Rock; TOUCHING: Standing...
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Graham Sutherland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Graham Sutherland Graham Sutherland (1903-1980), the leading painter of the English neoromantic movement, was noted for his imaginative pictures based on landscape and plant forms and for his portraits. Graham Sutherland was born in London...
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Sutherland, Graham
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Sutherland, Graham (1903–1980). British...x2019; ( John Hayes, The Art of Graham Sutherland , 1980). He described Sutherland...European’ ( The Work of Graham Sutherland , 1961). He had a high reputation...
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Coventry, diocese of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...symbol of death and resurrection. The cathedral's interior is dominated by the great tapestry of Christ in Glory by Graham Sutherland . The twinning of Coventry with Dresden is a powerful symbol of the desire for renewal after destruction, for both...
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Gregory, Eric
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...and who later became a close friend. Gregory was also an early patron of Barbara Hepworth , Ben Nicholson , and Graham Sutherland . In 1943 he established Gregory Fellowships at Leeds University to be held by painters, sculptors, composers...
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Modern Painters
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...appreciation of British artists who maintained traditional skills in drawing and painting— Lucian Freud and Graham Sutherland for example. At the same time, it launched an assault on various institutions and organizations (including...
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