Prizes

• Winner of the 2012 Spear’s Book Award for Outstandingly Produced Book
 

• Shortlisted for the 2013 Historians of British Art Book Prize in the Multi-Author category

 

• Nominated for the 2012 William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History

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Reviews

‘Sir William Nicholson (1872–1949) was one of the greatest painters of the early 20th century in England and this book must be one of the greatest achievements of art history of its type of the century’
– Adrian Clark, The British Art Journal

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‘Thoroughly impressive in its scholarship, design and sheer physical enormity, this beautiful volume has been worth the wait’
– Lee Hallman, The Burlington Magazine

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‘This magnificent book ... is an example of diligent scholarship and attention to detail ... [an] engrossing and monumental study’ – Robert Radford, Cassone

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‘A model of exemplary scholarship’
– William Packer, The Times

 

Summary

• This 672-page catalogue is the fruit of more than twenty years of scholarship by the author, Patricia Reed. I worked closely with her, from 2009 to 2011, copy-editing and proofreading the text, as well as making all corrections in both Word and QuarkXPress.

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• Other members of the team included the publisher Toby Treves at Modern Art Press, Peter Sawbridge, then Managing Editor at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the internationally renowned book designer Derek Birdsall at Omnific.

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• The breadth of William Nicholson’s work is revealed in this sumptuous book, the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of his oil paintings and the most comprehensive chronology of his life to date. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century.