The human figure between abstraction and figurative representation: using the intense color tones and reduced forms of Modernism, Rodney Gladwell took up classical themes. From early on, he developed his own personal style independent of his London contemporaries. This first extensive monograph now rediscovers him as one of the most important British painters of the nineteen-sixties. In addition to Gladwell's paintings and gouaches, the volume also presents many of the more than one hundred drawings that he made on long trips to Japan, Africa, and North and South America. Created in close collaboration with Gladwell's collector Walter Feilchenfeldt, the publication also includes their extensive correspondence, hence illustrating the complex relationship between artist and art dealer.

Text by: Jens Neubert