Contents: Preface; Note to New Edition; 1893-1919: Parents - Childhood - Schooldays - Travel - Royal Academy Schools; 1919-25: Hampstead studio - Church decorations - Downland - Theories of Dow & Bell - Seven and Five Society - Chantemesle - Ben & Winifred Nicholson; 1925-33: First one-man exhibition - Sussex & Shropshire - Moatlands - London Artists' Association; 1933-40: Hampstead in the 1930s - 'Objective Abstractions': the end of the 7&5 - Marriage - Suffolk; 1940s: Greenleaves - Painting theory - 'Painting is painting' - First retrospective - Isolation in the country - Howard Bliss - The Sheffield Incident; 1950s: Nudes - Large-scale works - Development in landscapes; 1960-65: Motifs - A painting day - Paint, brushes, canvas, palette - Uncertain health & weather - Recognition - Second Retrospective; 1965-79: Seachange - Greenleaves - Music & Painting - Consummation; Notes; Appendix; Chronology; Exhibitions; Public collections; Select bibliography; Index.
Peter Khoroche wrote the catalogue for an exhibition of Hitchens' paintings (Serpentine Gallery, London and tour 1989/90) and for an exhibition of Ben Nicholson's drawings and painted reliefs (Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and tour 2002/3). He is also the author of Ben Nicholson: Drawings and Painted Reliefs (Lund Humphries, 2002).
'...an authoritative study of the artist's life, supported by excellent color photographs, a thorough exhibition list, and a biographical chronology...Recommended.' Choice '... it remains the most comprehensive account of his life and work and draws on much of the artist's own writings and unpublished correspondence.' ARLIS 2007 'The visuality of Hitchens is very well presented in this revised publication, which allows the work to speak eloquently about the act of painting'. The Art Book 2008 '[Peter Khoroche's] monograph has been written from the best motives and the most constructive point of view. He had the benefit of ten years of talking to and corresponding with the artist, watching him paint and seeing his places of work. Although he conveys his enthusiasm for the pictures, to a great extent he lets Hitchens speak for himself.' TLS 'Peter Khoroche has shown how a passionately local idea became part of international modernism.' TLS
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