The Art of Jack Russell - Caught on Canvas

Russell, Jack

ISBN 10: 000413334X / ISBN 13: 9780004133348

Published by Harper Collins, London, 1998

About this Item

144 pp colour plates Signed " Best Wishes " by author on title page, blue cloth with gilt title to spine, blue endpapers. Book clean and sound, clipped dust wrapper a little creased with nick to head of spine.

Seller Inventory # 042623

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art of Jack Russell - Caught on Canvas
• Publisher: Harper Collins, London
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000413334X
• ISBN 13: 9780004133348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Sport
  • Signed

About this title

Synopsis

Jack Russell, England’s popular and eccentric wicketkeeper, is also a very successful and accomplished artist. The Art of Jack Russell features a selection of the best of Jack Russell’s paintings in a superbly produced book, accompanied by a lively, anecdotal text tracing Jack’ s second career.

Jack’s painting career started one day in l987 when rain stopped play and he began sketching to help pass the time. Jack has never looked back since. His paintings, sketches and limited edition prints are now much sought after and collected worldwide and he has paintings hanging in places as diverse as the Imperial War Museum, the Tower of London, and the Sir Don Bradman Museum in Australia. Jack opened his own gallery in Gloucestershire in l994 and this has been an enviable success.

Jack’s chosen painting subjects are diverse and range from cricket scenes around the world, evocative English landscapes and seascapes, to superb pencil sketches of people, wildlife and places he has visited. Jack’s other keen interest is military history and he enjoys creating impressive and detailed paintings to commemorate famous battles.

The Art of Jack Russell will also feature some of Jack Russell’s paintings of his beloved Slad Valley, better known as ‘Laurie Lee Country’

About the Author

Jack Russell, MBE, is one of England’s most colourful and eccentric cricketers and he is hugely popular. Jack is now becoming as well-known for his painting as for his record-breaking wicketkeeping. Jack Russell Unleashed, Jack’s autobiography, was very successfully published by HarperCollins in l997.