William Nicholson

William Nicholson (1872–1949) was an English painter of ravishingly beautiful still lifes and landscapes. Yet he holds an uncertain place in British art, largely because he left no statements about his aims and indirectly because his son—the better-known artist Ben Nicholson—subtly downplayed his father’s achievements. In this lively book, the first full critical biography of William Nicholson, Sanford Schwartz argues that the artist’s output has a coherent philosophical and psychological unity ...