Constable: Impressions of land, sea and sky celebrates the art of one of thegreatest British landscape painters. It focuses on John Constable as amaker of pictures, and works have been selected to emphasise his art-making processes. We have especially placed emphasis on Constable’sremarkable oil sketches of land, sea and sky; which contributed so muchto the freshness of his work. Among these are fifteen of his brilliant cloudstudies painted at Hampstead and seven of his evocative seascapes...

Directors’ preface

  Ron Radford and Seddon Bennington

Ministers’ foreword

  Senator the Hon. Rod Kemp and Rt Hon. Helen Clark

Introduction

  Ron Radford

Constable: Impressions of land, sea and sky

  Anne Gray

Constable: The lessons of landscape

  John Gage

John Constable: The making of the image

  Conal Shields

John Constable and the Royal Academy of Arts

  MaryAnne Stevens

John Constable and the National Gallery of British Art

  Mark Evans

Collecting Constable and plein air painting in Australia

  Ann Galbally

Catalogue

Constable and his times

Bibliography

Exhibition lenders

Acknowledgements

Index

Credits