Bryan Organ
picturing people
$85.80
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2025
Summary
Bryan Organ: A Portrait of an Artist
Published to mark the artist’s 90th birthday, this is the first and only book to provide an overview of Bryan Organ, one of the world’s great portrait painters.
This book tells the story of Bryan Organ, whose works have been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery more than any other 20th-century painter. It is itself a portrait, one that draws on his beginnings on the school cricket pitch and at art college as well…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500029831 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0500029830 |
| Author: | Tristram Hunt, Charlotte Mullins, Jon Snow, Chris Stephens, Roy Strong |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.86kg |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 310mm x 255mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘I am drawn to Organ’s portraits… They are icons’ - Jon Snow‘By far the most penetrating, delightful, endearing portrait of my brother… I know it is him’ - David Attenborough
About The Author
Tristram Hunt
Tristram Hunt has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017.
Charlotte Mullins is an art critic, writer and broadcaster. She has contributed to the Telegraph, Financial Times, Independent and specialist art titles for many years, and is the author of several books, including Picturing People.
Jon Snow is an English journalist and television presenter. He is best known as the longest-running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he presented from 1989 to 2021.
Chris Stephens has been Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath since 2017. Prior to that he worked at Tate for over twenty years, as Head of Displays, Tate Britain, and as Head of Modern British Art.
Sir Roy Strong is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. He has served as director of both the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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