The first book solely dedicated to the life and work of painter Curnow Vosper (1866–1942), best known for his iconic painting Salem, which depicts Siân Owen entering the small chapel of Salem, near Llanbedr, north Wales. The volume contains in excess of 130 of his paintings, and relates his life growing up in Devon, painting in Brittany, and exhibiting at The Royal Watercolour Society and The Royal Academy in London, The Paris Salon and elsewhere. 'Curnow Vosper: His Life and Works' has been carefully researched and traces the artist’s life, woven together with the story behind his pictures. The book is lavishly illustrated with a wide range of over 150 of his paintings, lithographs and drawings, spanning Vosper’s whole career. Vosper was widely recognised in the earlier part of the 20th century as a leading painter of his generation. After training as an artist in Paris he married a girl from Merthyr Tydfil. This new volume includes all his known Welsh works, as well as many of his other paintings, especially those set in Brittany. He exhibited most of them in London, Paris and elsewhere. They have been selected from both public and private collections.
