Discover the catalogue of the latest exhibition to arrive at Reading Museum: Rubens to Sickert: The Study of Drawing.
Rubens to Sickert showcases the University of Reading's Betts Collection, which was amassed by James Anthony Betts, Professor of Fine Arts at the University in the 1950s, alongside several key loans.
The exhibition illuminates Betts' own approach as an artist and educator, highlighting the value he placed on drawing as the cornerstone of pedagogic practice, and explores the rich, wider history of drawing in modern British art schools.
At 127 pages long, this catalogue presents an overview of the extraoardinary range of artworks that the exhibition features, combining beautiful imagery with words and interpretation by the exhibition's curator, Dr Naomi Lebens of the University of Reading Art Collections.
