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Title: Painters RA: A guide to the painter members of the Royal Academy of Arts with examples of their work Author: Dennis Toff List price: £12.99 ISBN: 978 0 906290 002 Description: The public, 150,000 of whom visit the Summer Exhibition at Burlington House each year, tend to know only a few of the painters whose work they view and admire. What started as a personal project, photographing a few artists whose work Toff admired developed into a major undertaking when he realised that because no single painting or series of images had been produced which attempted to include all of any current membership or group of Painter RAs since George Dance’s drawings of 1793, there was an opportunity to do so once again. This book brings together photographs taken by the author of each Painter RA alongside a painting to represent them and a short biography.
Author: Dennis Toff trained at the
School of Photography, Regent Street Polytechnic (now
Westminster University) in 1942 and served in the
photographic branch of the Fleet Air Arm during World
War II. He left photography in 1950 to pursue a
successful business career returning to photography on
retirement in 1993.
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