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Wendy Cook’s fascination with nutrition began during her war-time childhood. In the midst of deprivation and food-rationing, the rich abundance of her mother’s organic garden made a profound impression. In her twenties, married to Peter Cook, she discovered the artistic and magical effects that food could have in creating a convivial atmosphere. During this period she cooked for many well-known names, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Dudley Moore, Peter Ustinov and Alan Bennett. But it was only later, through her daughter falling ill, that she came to study and understand deeper aspects of nutrition, and in particular the effects of different foods on human health and consciousness...
This Surrey volume - the ninth in the Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series - brings together some 1,550 paintings from 58 collections in the county. Among these are two galleries dedicated to the work of single artists, George Frederick Watts and Sidney H. Sime. There is also the Royal Holloway College collection which includes an important holding of Victorian paintings including works by Frith, Landseer and Millais. Numerous municipal collections held in museums, council buildings and libraries are also shown. The Public Catalogue Foundation is a registered charity based in the National Gallery, London, that has been set up to record the nation's entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership and to make this accessible through a series of affordable catalogs. The catalogs are produced on a county-by-county basis. Catalogs published to date: Cambridgeshire: The Fitzwilliam Museum, East Sussex, Kent, London: The Slade and UCL, North Yorkshire, Suffolk, Surrey, West Sussex and West Yorkshire: Leeds .
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The BP Portrait Award is an international showcase for young artists and for many of the prize-winners has acted as a springboard to their careers. Accompanying the 2001 exhibition, this text looks at the previous 10 years of this award.
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A compilation of prize-winning portraits from 1990 through 2010.
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