St Ives Art Books

 

David Tovey currently has eight books available on aspects of St Ives art. 

 

Click on the book cover image for a more detailed account of the subjects and artists covered in each book

 

For David's biography of the author, artist and adventurer, Crosbie Garstin, entitled The Witty Vagabond (published 2017) see the Lamorna Writers page.

 

For David's two volume history of art in Polperro, entitled Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre, (published 2021), see Art in Polperro page.

 

For David's two volume history of Lamorna, entitled Lamorna - An Artistic, Social and Literary History (published 2022), see Lamorna Art page.

 

 

 

St Ives - The Dawn of the Colony
St Ives - The Dawn of the Colony

STOP PRESS - NEW PUBLICATION

 

1. St Ives - The Dawn of the Colony

 

 

published in March 2023 to accompany the St Ives Museum exhibition

 

Discovering St Ives - Early Visiting Artists

 

 

ISBN : 9780995571051

  

Paperback only  - 208 pages (A4 - 297mm x 210mm)

 

259 illustrations (168 in colour)

 

Price : £20

 

N.B. Revised and much expanded edition of 2008 publication St Ives Art pre-1890

 

 

 

Pioneers of St Ives Art at Home and Abroad (1889-1914)
Pioneers of St Ives Art at Home and Abroad (1889-1914)

2. Pioneers of St Ives Art at Home and Abroad (1889-1914)

 

published in June 2008 to accompany the exhibition at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance

 

Dawn of a Colony : Lyrical Light (St Ives 1889-1914)

 

 

ISBN : 9780953836369

 

Paperback only 350 pages (320mm x 230mm)

 

340 illustrations (236 in colour)

 

Price now £29-00 (originally £35)

 

 

Sea Change - Art in St Ives 1914-1930
Sea Change - Art in St Ives 1914-1930

3. Sea Change - Fine and Decorative Art in St Ives 1914-1930                                           

 

published in September 2010 to accompany the exhibition of the same title at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance

 

 

ISBN 9780953836383

 

Paperback - 302 pages - 297mm x 210mm

 

336 illustrations (247 in colour)

  

Price £25.00

 

 

St Ives Social History
St Ives Social History

4. St Ives (1860-1930) - The Artists and the Community - A Social History                         

 

published in November 2009  

 

ISBN 9780953836376

 

Paperback - 408 pages - 297mm x 210mm

 

38 colour and 415 b/w illustrations

  

Price £25.00

 

Creating A Splash
Creating A Splash

5. Creating A Splash - The St Ives Society of Artists - The First 25 Years (1927-1952)

 

published in June 2003 to accompany the exhibition of the same title, which toured the public art galleries in Penzance, Lincoln, Doncaster, Hereford, Sunderland and Newport between June 2003 and July 2004, attracting over 80,000 visitors.

 

 

Revised Edition - ISBN 0 9538363 4 7

  

Paperback 344 pages (A-4) - 90 colour and 243 black and white illustrations

 

NOW SOLD OUT

W.H.Y.Titcomb - A Newlyner from St Ives
W.H.Y.Titcomb - A Newlyner from St Ives

6. W H Y Titcomb - A Newlyner from St Ives

 

published in March 2003 to accompany the exhibition of the same title at Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance and dealing with the years 1858-1908

 

 

ISBN 0-9538363-1-2

 

167 pages (280mm x 210mm)

 

29 colour (many full page) and 101 black and white illustrations

  

NOW SOLD OUT

 

W.H.Y.Titcomb - Bristol, Venice and the Continental Tours
W.H.Y.Titcomb - Bristol, Venice and the Continental Tours

7. W H Y Titcomb - Bristol, Venice and the Continental Tours

 

being the second part of the Titcomb biography published in March 2003, dealing with the years 1909-1930

 

 

ISBN 0-9538363-2-0

 

77 pages (280mm x 210mm)

 

33 colour and 26 black and white illustrations

  

Price £7-50

 

Bradshaw biography
Bradshaw biography

8. George Fagan Bradshaw - Submariner and Marine Artist - and the St Ives Society of Artists

 

published in March 2000

 

 

ISBN 0953836304

 

264 pages - 280mm x 200mm

 

36 colour and 165 b/w illustrations

  

Price £15.00