The Great Artists Magazine Collection Reference

Are you familiar with this awesome magazine collection? The Great Artists were weekly published magazines offered by subscription in the 1980's by Marshall Cavendish Partworks. From looking at the magazines, it seems they were offered in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and Malta.

With the focus on major European artists, each magazine covers one artist, talking about their life, art, and background history of the time, with plenty of photos of not only the artist's artworks, but images related to them. This series is great especially for art history students.

The collection started with #1 John Constable, and a free issue #2 Van Gogh, most likely to encourage more subscription members. With total of 95 artists and index making up 96 magazines, they offered 8 binders for AUD 9.95ea.

One Sunday I went to a local gallery, and they had clear out sales of books and magazines happening. I scored the entire collection of The Great Artists at a bargain price.

Here is the list of the issues in this collection.

VOL. 1: The 19th Century; Romanticism and Impressionism

1. John Constable

2. Vincent Van Gogh

3. Pierre-Auguste Renoir

4. Joseph Turner

5. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

6. Claude Monet

7. William Blake

8. Paul Gaugin

9. Georges Seurat

10. Francisco de Goya

11. John Everett Millais

12. Eugène Delacroix

13. Paul Cézanne

14. Edouard Manet

15. Casper David Friedrich

16. Edgar Degas

17. Dante Gabriel Rossetti

18. J.A.D. Ingres

19. James McNeill Whistler

20. Gustave Courbet

VOL. 2: The 15th & 16th Centuries; The Renaissance

21. Leonardo Da Vinci

22. Pieter Bruegel

23. Michelangelo

24. Hans Holbein

25. Fra Angelico

26. Albrecht Dürer

27. Titian

28. Nicholas Hilliard

29. Sandro Botticelli

30. Van Eyck

31. Raphael

32. Hieronymus Bosch

33. Agnolo Bronzino

34. Paolo Uccello

35. Rogier Van Der Weyden

36. Giotto Di Bondone

37. Grünewald

38. Giovanni Bellini

39. Andrea Mantegna

40. Piero Della Francesca

41. Lucas Cranach

42. El Greco

43. Limbourg Brothers

44. Jacopo Tintoretto

45. Masaccio

VOL. 3: The 17th & 18th Centuries; Baroque to Rococo

46. Rembrandt Van Rijn

47. Canaletto

48. Thomas Gainsborough

49. Peter Paul Rubens

50. George Stubbs

51. Fragonard

52. Velazquez

53. Claude Lorrain

54. William Hogarth

55. Johannes Vermeer

56. François Boucher

57. Anthony Van Dyck

58. Richard Wilson

59. Jacques-Louis David

60. Frans Hals

61. Antoine Watteau

62. Joshua Reynolds

63. Caravaggio

64. Poussin

65. Wright Of Derby

66. Giambattista Tiepolo

67. Annibale Carracci

68. Jacob Van Ruisdael

69. Sir Peter Lely

70. Chardin

VOL. 4: The 20th Century; Modern Art

71. Pablo Picasso

72. L.S. Lowry

73. Salvador Dali

74. Edvard Munch

75. Henri Rousseau

76. Amedeo Modigliani

77. GwenJohn

78. Sir Stanley Spencer

79. Gustav Klimt

80. Wassily Kandinsky

81. Kasimir Malevich

82. Odilon Redon

83. Umberto Boccioni

84. John Singer Sargent

85. Marc Chagall

86. Bridget Riley

87. Joan Miró

88. Edward Hopper

89. Paul Klee

90. Sir Sidney Nolan

91. Edward Burra

92. George Grosz

93. Diego Rivera

94. Franz Marc

95. Henri Matisse

96. Index

Marshall Cavendish also published The Great Composers 46 magazine series with CDs prior to The Great Artists, which I find are very educational since the information on the composing giants along with pictures and. photos are not as easy to find as big artists.

Keep an eye out for these magazines if you are an art & music lover.