Bijou, 1995, 12.7 x 17.8 cm. Multimedia on board.


Selected articles/publications relating to the artist

Portrait of the Artist: John Plumb - John Coplans, Art News & Review, 20 June 1959

Size Wise - Lawrence Alloway, Art News & Review, Sept 1960

Avant-Garde, London - Lawrence Alloway, Image, October 1960*

Where can the young painter be seen? - Lawrence Alloway, Weekly Post, 7 January 1961
Review of solo exhibition, Molton Gallery, London - Roger Coleman, Art News & Review,July 1961

Contemporary British Art - Herbert Read. First published 1951, Penguin; revised editionl964 (Pelican)*

Review of exhibition "New London Situation" at the New London Gallery - DenisBowen, Art News & Review,Sept 1961

IUA Congress Buildings, Exhibition on South Bank, London - Theo Crosby, ArchitecturalDesign, November 1961 (Vol XXXI)*

Illusion and Environment in recent British Art - Lawrence Alloway, Art International,February 1962*

London Report - Robyn Denny, Das Kunstwerk, October 1962 (4/XVI)*

The Gestural Element: John Plumb - The Artist at Work. Mervyn Levy, The Studio, December1963*

A Concise History of English Painting - William Gaunt, Thames and Hudson, 1964, reprinted1973

New Abstraction - Das Kunstwerk, April-June 1965 (10-12/XVIII)*

The Reeves Collection, Studio International, May 1966*

John Plumb, Improvisation and Discipline - Frank Whitford, Studio International, August1966*

Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art - second edition, paperback 1977

London Diversities - Art & Artists, May 1968*

Arts Review, 25 May 1968*

Larousse Encyclopaedia of Modern Art, 1965, updated 1980

Contemporary British Artists,- photographs by Walia - Bergstrom & Boyle, London 1979

Encyclopaedia of Oil Painting, materials and techniques - Frederick Palmer, Batsford 1984*

New Vision 56-66, review of exhibitions at the New Vision Centre Gallery, MargaretGarlake, 1984

Arts Review, 25 October 1985

Reconstructing the Experience, John Plumb: Landscape Painting in Oils - Sally Bulgin,TheArtist, January 1988*

The RA Magazine No 21, Winter 1988

Drawing with Colour - Judy Martin, Quarto Publishing, 1980*

Plumb's Pastels - Sally Bulgin, The Artist, April 1990*

The Complete Portrait Painting Course - Angela Gair, Mitchell Beazley 1990*

Working with soft pastels - Pip Seymour, The Artist, 1992*

The Sixties Art Scene in London - David Mellor, Phaidon Press 1993*

Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980 - ed. Alan Windsor, Scolar Press, 1992

Acrylics Masterclass - Sally Bulgin, Harper Collins, 1994*

New Art New World, British Art in Postwar Society - Margaret Garlake, Yale University Press 1998

A Sweeper-Up after Artists, A Memoir - Irving Sandler, Thames & Hudson, 2003

* includes reproduction(s) of works by the artist

Exhibited work reviewed in national and provincial press on many occasions.

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