Moment to Moment – Exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
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Moment to Moment – Exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

UPCOMING: 09.09.2022–13.11.2022 Ikon’s exhibition is the first solely devoted to Lear’s sketches and landscape drawings from across the entire span of his career. This show examines the artist’s fascination with the creative process and is especially concerned with how his work came into being – through experimental methods of composition, successive drafts, doodlings and written marginalia. … Continue reading »

The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear
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The Remarkable Nature of Edward Lear

Free public lecture Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Edward Lear (1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler. His paintings of parrots, macaws, toucans, owls, and other … Continue reading »

A very early Edward Lear coming up at auction
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A very early Edward Lear coming up at auction

Lot 569 at Roseberys London, 5th-6th December 2017 Roseberys in London will be auctioning a very early watercolour by Edward Lear showing a Landscape with a woman by a dwelling. It is signed and dated 1836 and measures 19.1 x1 3.8 cm. For further info click on the link: https://auctions.roseberys.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/247/lot/103623/?url=%2Fm%2Fsearch%2F%3Fpage%3D3%26key%3D%26cat%3D159%26view%3Dlist Continue reading »

A successful evening for the launch of “The Natural History of Edward Lear”
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A successful evening for the launch of “The Natural History of Edward Lear”

Last night we celebrated the launch of “The Natural History of Edward Lear” by Robert McCracken Peck. Please see our previous post to learn more about the publication: https://www.edwardlearsociety.org/natural-history-edward-lear-robert-mccracken-peck/ In the photo from left to right: Derek Johns, Robert McCracken Peck, Nicholas Parsons and Spiro Flamburiari Continue reading »

“For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear”
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“For the art lover, the naturalist, the child in your life, a new book on Edward Lear”

Follow the link to read Michael Dirda’s review on Robert McCracken’s Peck recent publication “The Natural History of Edward Lear” in today’s Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/for-the-art-lover-the-naturalist-the-child-in-your-life-a-new-book-on-edward-lear/2016/11/23/62ef9dec-adce-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html We remind you that the author will be at Hatchard’s, Piccadilly, London at 1pm on Wednesday 30th November to sign and launch his book. Continue reading »