Art and Yorkshire

"The beauty of Yorkshire's landscape moved the great British painter JMW Turner to tears - and he understandably features extensively in these pages. Some artists came before him, and many came after him. [The book] looks at the activities of the provincial portrait painters; the art patronage of Yorkshire's aristocratic families and the wealthy industrialists of the Victorian age; through to Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth carving their monumental sculpture inspired by the rough-hewn landscape, and then David Hockney painting vividly-coloured trees beside a road near Bridlington ..."--Book flap.