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BACK IN STOCK: SANDRA BLOW

The only comprehensive book on the work of Sandra Blow RA – re-issued to coincide with the artist's centenary in 2025 – is available again in paperback

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WINNER: Historians of British Art Book Prize 2025

The award for a single-authored book with a subject between 1600–1800 goes to Andrea Pappas for Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770

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Image credits: SLIDE IMAGES: Women in the Arts: Eunice Bourne, Embroidered Overmantel, 1745-50, plain-weave linen, embroidered with wool, silk, metal-wrapped thread and glass beads, 63 x 129 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This photograph shows the embroidery, still in its original 3-paned frame with its mullions visible over the continuous textiles beneath. Annibale Carracci, River Landscape, 1590, oil on canvas, The National Gallery of Art, Washington. Samuel H. Kress Collection. Reproduced in 'Woodland Imagery'. Dorothea Tanning, The Philosophers, 1952, courtesy of Mimi Johnson, Photo: Margaret Fox; Helmer Osslund, Autumn Day at Torneträsk (1909), Nordiska Museum, Stockholm, Bertil Höglund/Nordiska Museet. Reproduced in 'A Circumpolar Landscape'. BROWSE BY THEME IMAGES: Modern and Contemporary Painters: Hurvin Anderson, Maracus III, 2004 © Hurvin Anderson. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Richard Ivey. Reproduced in ‘Hurvin Anderson’; Sculpture and Installation: Nigel Hall, Mirrored, 2011. Edition of 3. Bronze. Private Collection UK. Reproduced in 'Nigel Hall'. Women in the Arts: Emily Young carving Cautha (2019), Tuscany, Italy. Photograph by Joshua K. Jara. Reproduced in ‘Emily Young’; Hot Topics in the Art World: Photograph from the Art Business Conference, London, 2024. Surrealism: Dorothea Tanning, The Philosophers, 1952, courtesy of Mimi Johnson, Photo: Margaret Fox. Reproduced in 'Dorothea Tanning: Transformations'. Museums and Curating: A visitor at MbdK Leipzig. Photo: Dinah Casson. Reproduced in ‘Closed on Mondays’; History of Architecture: Lympne Castle, restored and extended by Robert Lorimer for Frank Tennant, from 1906. Photo: Robin Forster. Reproduced in ‘Edwardians and Their Houses’; The Future of Housing: Karl-Marx-Hof by Karl Ehn (1927-31), Art Kowalsky/Alamy. Reproduced in ‘Rebel Modernists’.