Selected Bibliography

Writings by William Townsend

William Townsend’s journals. UCL Library Special Collections.

William Townsend. The Euston Road School: Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Graham Bell, B. A. R. Carter, William Coldstream, Denis Dawnay, Lawrence Gowing, Victor Pasmore, Basil Rocke, Claude Rogers, William Townsend, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1948. Exhibition catalogue.

William Townsend. The Euston Road School and Others, Wakefield City Art Gallery, 1948. Catalogue introduction.

William Townsend, Canterbury. Batsford, London and New York, 1950.

William Townsend, “Wyndham Lewis”, The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 99, No. 651, June 1957, 202-203.

William Townsend, “Artists in Canada” Third Programme, BBC radio broadcast, 1 March 1964 [MS]. UCL Records Office.

William Townsend. Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1965.

William Townsend, ed. Canadian Art Today, Studio International, London and New York, 1970.

William Townsend, ed. Andrew Forge. Townsend Journals: An Artist's Record of His Times, 1928-51, Tate Gallery, 1976.

William Townsend, “William Townsend: Paintings, 1964 to 1968”, Artscanada 29, no. 4 (Oct-Nov 1972), 83-85.

 

Writings on Townsend and his work

Allen, Karen E. William Townsend in Alberta. Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, 1982. Exhibition catalogue.

Bowness, Alan. William Townsend, Tate Gallery, London, 1976.

Calvocoressi, Richard. “Sketches by the way.” The Townsend Journals by Townsend, William; Forge, Andrew (ed). The Times Literary Supplement (London, England), November 19, 1976; pg. 1465; Issue 3897. Book review.

Forge, Andrew. ed. The Townsend Journals: An Artist’s Record of His Times 1928-51. The Tate Gallery, London, 1976.

Coldstream, William and Charlotte Townsend-Gault. A tribute to William Townsend, 1909 to 1973. Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia, 1974. [Catalogue of exhibition at the Burnaby Art Gallery, Feb 6-Mar 3, 1974. Exhibition also toured to Penticton Art Gallery (BC), Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff, University of Alberta Ring House Gallery]

Laughton, Bruce. The Euston Road School. Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1986.

Neve, Christopher. William Townsend 1909-1973: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 1978. Exhibition catalogue.

Morris, Lynda and Robert Radford. AIA: The Story of the Artists International Association 1933-1953. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1983.

Neve, Christopher. The Unquiet Landscape. Faber, London, 1989.

Spalding, Frances. “William Townsend and Modernism”, in William Townsend: Landscape Paintings 1930-1950. James Hyman Fine Art Ltd., London, 2006, 7-12. Exhibition catalogue.

Townsend-Gault, Charlotte, ed. “Entries: Selections from the Writings of William Townsend” in Mastai, Judith and O’Brian, Johns, eds. Collapse: The View From Here, Vol. 1, Vancouver, 1995, 10-28.

Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. Drawing on Canada: William Townsend: Words and Works on Paper, 1951-1973. College Art Collection, University College London, 1995. Exhibition catalogue.

 

Other exhibition catalogues and documentation

Exhibition of Paintings by William Townsend, Bloomsbury Gallery, London, 1932. Exhibition catalogue.

1947 Members’ Exhibition, A.I.A. Gallery, London, 1947. Exhibition catalogue.

Between Monet and Bonnard and paintings by William Townsend, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London, 1949. Exhibition catalogue.

Autumn Exhibition 1949, Brighton Art Gallery, 1949. Exhibition catalogue.

Artists at Work: Recent paintings by Townsend, Ayres, Frost, Rogers, and Evans and sculpture by Dalwood, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, 1960. Exhibition catalogue.

Dalhousie Collects William Townsend (1909 – 1973): Selected works from 1934-1967. Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1989. Exhibition catalogue.

 

Selected Reviews

“Art Exhibitions: Mr. William Townsend”, The Times, Jul 18, 1949, 2. [Review of exhibition at Roland, Browse and Delbanco Gallery, London]

Berger, John. “The London Group”, The New Statesman and Nation, Feb 17, 1951, 41.

Berger, John. “Festival Notes: British Painting, 1925-50, Second Anthology at the New Burlington Galleries”, The New Statesman and Nation, Jul 7, 1951, 42.

Berger, John. “Fashionable Blinkers”, The New Statesman and Nation, Aug 15, 1953, 46.

“The English Scene.” The Times, May 19, 1951, 8.

“West of England Academy: New Life in an Old Institution”, The Times, Nov 17, 1953, 11.

Berger, John. “Good Painting”, The New Statesman and Nation, Nov 26, 1955, 50.

“Cézanne as Painter’s Starting Point” The Times, Feb 14, 1962, 15. [Review of Townsend exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, 1962.]

“Mr. William Townsend’s Views of a Town from Above”, The Times, Dec 2, 1964, 5. [Review of Townsend exhibition at the Leicester Galleries, 1964.]

Newton, Eric, “London Galleries” The Guardian, Dec 2, 1964. [Leicester Galleries exhibition review]