The first biography of one of the North East's best-known artists. Written by well-known local art historian and author Marshall Hall, and titled John Falconar Slater - The North East's Weatherproof Artist, it tells of how the Newcastle-born artist acquired his nickname by wearing his weatherproof oilskins to paint the local coastline in the wildest of climatic conditions. At a time when artists on the Continent were increasingly succumbing to the attractions of open-air painting, leading to their identification as "Impressionists", a North East artist had been independently practising it for several years, and in weather conditions rarely tackled by its followers in France and elsewhere.
About the AuthorAlso by Marshall Hall: The Artists of Northumbria, 1973, 1982, and 2005; The Artists of Cumbria, 1979; Newcastle between the Wars, 2011.
Book InformationISBN 9781838280918
Author Marshall HallFormat Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Tyne Bridge PublishingPublisher Newcastle Libraries & Information Service