Publisher's Synopsis
This exciting book presents twenty previously unpublished watercolors and pastels that Gardner recently completed after spending time at the National Gallery, London, in 2005. Among the featured works are a pastel portrait of Gardner's father, a watercolor depicting bus passengers against the Rocky Mountains, and a group of sublime landscapes. Christopher Riopelle discusses this new body of workwhich is at once deeply personal, coolly appraising, and inescapably alluringand situates Gardner's oeuvre within the context of art history, including that of the Old Masters.