Title: Kyffin Williams : Drawings
Publisher: Gomer Press, Llandysul
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st
102 printed pages. Signed by Kyffin Williams in blue ink & in a flowing hand, on the front free endpaper. Loosely inserted two colour illustrated folding card leaflets for Kyffin Williams exhibitions at the Thackeray Gallery in 1991. 22 x 26.5 cm. Original black cloth. Spine with silver lettering. Dustwrapper near fine/fine condition. Sir Kyffin Williams was a Welsh painter best known for his depictions of the Welsh countryside, shepherds and their sheepdogs, livestock, and small villages. Williams paintings are primarily made with impasto palette knife marks and few brushstrokes, employing a limited palette consisting of gray and subtle greens that emanate the color found in the rocks and foliage of Wales. Born on May 9, 1918 in Llangefni, United Kingdom, he went on to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, also spending time painting in the Welsh settlement of Y Wladfa in Patagonia, Argentina in 1968, thanks to the Winston Churchill Fellowship. Today, Williams works are in the collections of the National Library of Wales, the Government Art Collection in the United Kingdom, and the National Museum of Wales. Bookseller Inventory # 4391