Sketching Country

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Following the nationwide success of Rowland Hilders England and Rowland Hilder Country this new account of Britains best-known landscape painter illustrates his lifelong devotion to the art of sketching. In a typically lively text Rowland Hilder recalls the influence of great outdoor sketchers of the past from Claude Lorrian to Constable Turner to Whistler whose example has helped him achieve his widely acknowledged mastery. Rowland Hilders account of his own passion for sketching and its place in a working lifetime of over sixty years casts new light on his long and distinguished career. Together his personal testimony and the one hundred superb color illustrations published here for the first time make this an even more original and enjoyable book than its two best-selling companions.