Skip to content

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

  • About us
    • About us
    • Director’s message
    • Meet the team
  • Publish with us
    • Publish with us
    • Client list
  • How to order
    • How to order
  • Scala publications
    • All titles
    • Upcoming titles
    • Art
      • Fine art
      • Contemporary art
      • Decorative art
      • Architecture
      • Sculpture
    • Collections
    • Education
      • Schools & colleges
      • Academic
      • Children’s
    • Exhibitions
    • Heritage
      • Royal collection
      • Castles
      • Homes & gardens
      • Sporting venues
    • Illustrated histories
    • Libraries
    • Religious sites
    • Series
      • Director’s Choice
      • Art Spaces
      • Highlights
      • 4-Fold
Menu
  • About us
    • About us
    • Director’s message
    • Meet the team
  • Publish with us
    • Publish with us
    • Client list
  • How to order
    • How to order
  • Scala publications
    • All titles
    • Upcoming titles
    • Art
      • Fine art
      • Contemporary art
      • Decorative art
      • Architecture
      • Sculpture
    • Collections
    • Education
      • Schools & colleges
      • Academic
      • Children’s
    • Exhibitions
    • Heritage
      • Royal collection
      • Castles
      • Homes & gardens
      • Sporting venues
    • Illustrated histories
    • Libraries
    • Religious sites
    • Series
      • Director’s Choice
      • Art Spaces
      • Highlights
      • 4-Fold
Search
Close

Look inside

Painting Norway

Nikolai Astrup 1880-1928

Frances Carey, Ian Dejardin, MaryAnne Stevens

  • Categories: Exhibitions, Fine art
ISBN: 978 1 85759 988 6
Size: 280 x 240 mm (9½ x 11 in.)
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Images: 175
In association with: Dulwich Picture Gallery
Date published: June, 2016
UK £25
/ US $39.95

Highlights

  • Beautiful illustrations displayed without the distraction of scholarly comment
  • Astrup is a well-loved Norwegian painter, uniquely able to capture the spirit of his home

Description

A profoundly sensitive painter and innovative printmaker, Nikolai Astrup became one of Norway’s most renowned twentieth-century artists. Together with Edvard Munch, he expanded the artistic possibilities of the woodcut, consciously blurring the boundaries between prints and paintings. Best known for his luminous paintings of midsummer nights, Astrup evoked in his landscapes the atmosphere and mood characteristic of the changing seasons in his home region of Jølster. It was there that he spent almost his entire life, first in his father’s parsonage, then at the farmstead he built on the opposite side of the lake, now known as ‘Astruptunet’. Featuring over a hundred oil paintings and prints, including works from private collections never exhibited before, this book accompanies the first UK exhibition of Astrup’s unique and extraordinary work.

Author information

Frances Carey is an independent curator and consultant who was formerly Deputy Keeper of Prints and Drawings and Head of National Programmes at the British Museum. She has published on the history of art and culture from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Ian A. C. Dejardin is the Sackler Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. He graduated with a Master (Hons) in History of Art from Edinburgh University; appointed Curator at Dulwich in 1997, he became the gallery’s Director in 2005 and since then has presided over a varied and international exhibition programme.

MaryAnne Stevens is an independent art historian and curator who has previously worked at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, as Director of Academic Affairs, before serving as Acting Secretary for three years. She has been published extensively, and curated or co-curated many major international exhibitions, including Manet: Portraying Life and Jean-Etienne Liotard.

Share

Share on facebook
Share on twitter
Share on linkedin
Amazon UK
Amazon USA

Related publications

Chau Chak Wing Museum

Director's Choice

20 Masterpieces at Mount Stuart

Paintings from the Bute Collection

Michael Rees

Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)site

Guildhall Art Gallery

Director's Choice

New Views of the Middle Ages

Highlights from the Wyvern Collection

Masterpieces of The Wallace Collection

African Apparel

Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century

The Hermitage

Director's Choice

Registered Address*
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd

27, Old Gloucester Street
London WC1N 3AX
United Kingdom
*Please do not deliver to this address

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.
c/o CohnReznick LLP
1301 Avenue of the Americas
10th Floor
New York, NY 10019
United States

  • Contact us

Follow us

  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • FAQ
  • Download catalogue
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Credits
This site uses cookies: Find out more.