Tuesday, February 1, 2011

From Prodigy to Outcast: Simeon Solomon book




This publication by the Jewish Museum London analyses the early career of pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon.

Essays by Lionel Lambourne, Alisa Jaffa, Julia Weiner, Colin Cruise and Fiona Moorhead. Includes illustrations from unpublished sketchbooks.

http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/?location_id=203&item=7

2 comments:

Hels said...

Good choice of painting for the front cover of the book. Sometimes he was very uneven - high standard of art one month and rubbish the next. This is a great painting.

I actually wrote a chapter about his sister Rebecca, another artist, but the sibling I loved most was his older brother, Abraham.

Hermes said...

Thank you. I have featured some of the othes on my other blog but Simeon fascinates me. Perhaps because of his tragic life. Oddly it made me think better of Burne-Jones who was one of the very few people who stood by him.