WORKS OF ART BIOGRAPHY BOOKS & DVDs COLLECTIONS
CATALOGUE RAISONNE LINKS EXHIBITIONS WORKS FOR SALE
This is the definitive Frank Brangwyn site, providing information about one of Britain’s most versatile and talented artists – a muralist, oil painter, watercolourist, draughtsman, etcher, lithographer, wood engraver and designer of interiors, furniture, carpets, ceramics and stained glass.
Brangwyn in his Temple Lodge studio, 1904, photograph courtesy Liss Fine Art
What you can find on this site:WORKS OF ART provides details of all the disciplines with which Brangwyn was involved – murals, oils, works on paper, prints, interior design, decorative arts, stained glass, Stations of the Cross, bookplates, works by other artists ‘after’ Brangwyn, together with sample signatures (including a brief note about fakes). Also includes the Brangwyn Portfolio and Zwanzig Graphische Arbeiten.
BIOGRAPHY gives an overview of the man and a detailed tabulated biography, whilst myths debunks the wobbly stories which have developed over the years.
BOOKS & DVDs lists books illustrated by Brangwyn together with a list of recommended reading and viewing.
COLLECTIONS provides lists of collections worldwide, permanent displays and Brangwyn’s gifts to museums and art galleries.
CATALOGUE RAISONNE provides details of the ongoing catalogue.
LINKS lists links not otherwise noted in the collections section.
EXHIBITIONS/NEWS supplies details of the latest exhibitions including Brangwyn works and news of relevance.
WORK FOR SALE. There’s a large quantity of ‘fake’ Brangwyn works for sale via auction houses and various websites. I’d hate people to pay good money for something that is not original, so hope to flag up the ones I’m concerned about.
The copyright owner is David Brangwyn who can be contacted via Liss Llewellyn Fine Art (www.llfa.uk)
Libby and Brangwyn (bust by Albert Toft, c1938)
Libby Horner
I’m an art historian, writer, lecturer, curator and filmmaker, acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on Brangwyn and am compiling the Catalogue Raisonné of all his work. I curated the most comprehensive exhibition ever held of the artist’s work in 2006 (Leeds, Bruges and Swansea) and was consultant for the 2010 National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Brangwyn exhibition (presented with an award for best researched exhibition by the Western Arts Foundation, Japan).
I write authentication reports on Brangwyn works for auction houses and individual collectors (supplying title, date, full catalogue entry and catalogue number) – charges available on request. If you need more detailed information, have any information to add or correct, anecdotes, lists of acquisitions, original works by Brangwyn or correspondence relating to the artist, please let me know.