Constable’s Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable

This publication examines Constable’s dramatic studies of clouds and places them in their intellectual, scientific and artistic contexts in a series of fascinating essays. 80 oil sketches and paintings are fully discussed and illustrated in colour and are supplemented by a selection of meteorological instruments. The contributors are Professor John Gage, University of Cambridge; Anne Lyles, Tate Gallery; Edward Morris, formerly of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Professor John Thornes, University of Birmingham; and art historian, Timothy Wilcox.