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David Tovey lectures extensively on Cornish art and holds day-long seminars on
the art colony at St Ives. In July 2008, he took a leading role in the
Symposium organised by Tate St Ives entitled
Dawn of a Colony - New Perspectives on St Ives Art 1811-1914
He is also included in the Directory of Lecturers approved by The National
Association of Design and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) and lectures regularly to
NADFAS groups and to other organisations, particularly Friends groups of Public
Art Galleries. Topics include
Exploding the Whistler Myth - The Dawn of the St Ives Art Colony
The Development of the St Ives Art Colony (1885-1914)
Masters and Pupils : Art Schools in St Ives (1895-1914)
Landscape and Marine Painting in St Ives (1885-1914)
American Artists in St Ives (1878-1948)
Australasian Artists in St Ives (1885-1920)
The St Ives Fishing Industry pre-1914, as depicted by the Artists
Newlyn School depictions of the faith of the fisherfolk
The life and art of William Titcomb (1858-1930)
The International Influence of the St Ives Art Colony pre-1914
Cornish Art in Foreign Public Collections (pre-1914)
Cornish Art in Foreign Public Collections (post-1914)
Creating A Splash - The St Ives Society of Artists (1927-1952)
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