{"product_id":"anthony-gross-drawn-to-life","title":"Anthony Gross Drawn to Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftback book, 108 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this latest Goldmark book, esteemed art critic and writer Julian Freeman re-evaluates the long neglected legacy of Anthony Gross. This new text by Freeman, with contributions by Martin Salisbury and Max Waterhouse, examines the breadth of Gross' career, from early pre-war painting, animation and etching to his years as the most prolific War Artist, and his final years painting in and around the French village of Le Boulvé. The book is full of photographs and illustrations of Gross' work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAnthony Gross CBE RA (1905-1984) led a life of adventure and dashing romance. Better known as the master etcher who honed his line in the shantytowns of Paris, his pioneering work in animation propelled him briefly to the forefront of British film. Our most prolific Official War Artist, his service brought him from North Africa to the Near East, from the jungles of Burma to the beaches of D-Day, documented across several hundred watercolours. Then, with the war behind him, Gross spent thirty years living and painting amid the extraordinary vistas of the Lot Valley in southern France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eAt a time when Abstract Expressionism was taking the world by storm, Gross discovered a style of abstraction all his own – one that harked back to his father’s cartography shop, but was tied inextricably to the shapes and rhythms of the natural world around him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Gross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57610746593653,"sku":"BK-AG-DTL","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/5597\/3514\/files\/drawntolife-1.jpg?v=1790423763","url":"https:\/\/www.goldmarkart.com\/products\/anthony-gross-drawn-to-life","provider":"Goldmark","version":"1.0","type":"link"}