Unlikely to be challenged as the standard work on the subject, British
Artists 1880-1940 includes entries for a staggering 41,000 British
artists who exhibited at forty-nine of the major exhibition centres and
commercial galleries throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
between the years 1880-1940. While there are many books on specific
artists, schools and movements, until the publication of this book there
has been no basic work of reference covering the vast mass of artists
who painted during the period and whose work can be found in most
British homes. The arrangement of names is alphabetical, to make it as
easy as possible to find the artist; where dates of birth and/or death
dates are unknown, the first and last year of exhibiting has been used.
The date the artist became a member of a society has been included as
well as the address. ' ...a wealth of information that has never been
published before... ' - Antique Monthly