Derek had taken his art books with him to Hillesden and now onto Arundel. Mainly published from the 1940s onwards, they included the classic collection ‘The Penguin Modern Painters’ covering Graham Sutherland, Victor Pasmore, Matthew Smith, Duncan Grant, Paul Nash, John Piper and Paul Klee.
The joys of Klee’s works never wained for Ruth and his print ‘Landscape with Yellow Birds’, bought at the time for six shillings*, hung in their rooms in Hillesden and later in Arundel.
Other books included Ruhemann’s The artist at work, another Penguin, which offered Ruth a tempting glimpse of Kokoschka and Bonnard, as well as From Sickert to 1948 † which described a comprehensive range of painters and introduced her to the work of Ivon Hitchens‡.
* ‘Landscape with Yellow Birds’ print, published in 1951 by Penguin.
† From Sickert to 1948, published by Lund Humphries in 1948.
‡ Ivon Hitchens lived local to Arundel and they got to be good friends.
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