Masters of British Painting, 1800-1950
The Museum of Modern Art | 1956 | ISBN: N/A | English | 168 pages | PDF | 14 MB

In this survey of the last century and a half of British painting, Andrew Ritchie discusses - brilliantly and informally - the amazing range and diversity of a period that bridges two worlds: early nineteenth-century Romanticism and the modern movement in England. The history of British art is made up of contradictions, but certainly no other age is so full of interest or so remarkable for its mixture of revolutionary and reactionary movements and the eccentricities of its individual personalities