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Ruskin's Pictures - Click an image to enlarge Image |
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Ruskin was an artist of great sensitivity who, nonetheless, chose never to exhibit his work professionally. Instead, he painted and drew in order to study the world around him and to communicate his discoveries. Many of his architectural and natural history studies were engraved or otherwise reproduced in his books, some were scaled-up for use in his lectures. The collection on display at Brantwood at any one time is part of a rotating display from the collection at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, where the world’s largest archive of Ruskin material is based.
Below is a small selection of Ruskin’s work. For a much larger selection, please follow this link: http://www.ruskinforall.org.uk/collection.htm# | |
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Rose la Touche
This sensitive portrait is of Rose as a young girl, shortly after Ruskin became her Drawing Tutor. |
Cloud Study: Ice Clouds over Coniston Old Man 1880
A study reproduced in ‘Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century’ in which Ruskin prophesied climate change. |
Ca’ d’Oro, Venice 1845
A famous study by Ruskin of the palace on the Grand Canal which Ruskin made whilst working on his three-volume Stones of Venice. |
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Mountain Rock and Alpine Rose 1844
Ruskin’s love of wild mountain scenery and his knowledge of geology led to many superlative studies made during his trips to the Alps.
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Ponte dei Pugni, Venice
Ruskin was capable of inventive, fluid composition as well as detailed study, as witnessed in this water-level view of a Venetian canal. |
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