Major Publications about or containing Graham Ovenden’s Work
Monographs and Essays
Victor Arwas, Clive Aslet, Laurie Lee, Robert Melville, Clive Wainwright
Graham Ovenden
London, Academy Editions, 1987
ISBN 0 312 01139 3
hardback, 160pp, illustrated in colour and monochrome, includes bibliography and catalogue raisonné
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Reviews:
Arts Review, 3 July 1987, Vol. 39, No. 13, page 468.
Favourable review, includes reproduction of Disused Mineworkings (1986)
Hugh Cumming
'Post-Modern Landscape: The Art of Graham Ovenden' in
Art and Design: The Post-Avant-Garde Painting in the Eighties
Vol. 3. No. 7/8, 1987,
ISSN 0267-3991
Four page article on Graham Ovenden's landscape paintings, reproducing Spring Morning, Wiltshire (1984) and The Residence of the Philosopher, Kemp (1984) in colour and All Hallows (The Sea Cathedral) (1983) and The Valley towards the Moors (1978) in black and white.
See also the general Ruralists Bibliography
Book Illustrations
Vladimir Nabokov
Aspects of Lolita
Drawings, prints and photographs by Graham Ovenden
Introduction by Robert Melville
London, Academy Editions, 1976
Emily Brönte
Sturmhöhe
Illustrated by Graham Ovenden
Gütersloh, Carl Bertelsmann, 1981
See also Ruralist Books
Graham Ovenden’s Poetry
Graham Ovenden
A Reply to the Critics of Mr Peter Blake RA
A homily of eight acrostics
Cornwall, privately printed, 1983
Graham Ovenden
Satirical Poems and Others
Preface by Peter Mendes
Cornwall, Turangalila Press, 1983
SBN 907501 01 x (cloth)
SBN 907501 02 8 (paper)
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Graham Ovenden
The Marble Mirror
Thirty Poems
Cornwall, The Einna Press, 1984
Michael Pitts
Avebury and Stonehenge (booklet)
Stones Print, 1994
0-9514076-1-9
Contains 'The Old Stones', poem by Graham Ovenden
Graham Ovenden’s Photography
Graham Ovenden
Childhood Streets
New York, Ophelia Editions, 1998
ISBN 1-888425-10-5
Reviews:
Alex O'Connor, The Times, 24 May 2000
The Black and White Art Photographer
Lucienne Zeger Ltd, 1990
Journal 5, January 1992
- contains 12 reproductions of Ovenden's photographs of the East End of London. Also included is a short essay and a poem by Ovenden.
Stories and Essays
Graham Ovenden
'The Old House on the Estuary'
3i in-house magazine
December 1987, No. 9, pages 18-20
Graham Ovenden's only ghost story
Graham Ovenden
'Ruralism & the New Romanticism'
Art and Design: The New Romantics
London, The Academy Group, December 1988
ISSN 0267-3991
Two page essay by Graham Ovenden on the Ruralists and their influences (pages 51 and 52), reproducing A Remembered Summer (Graham Arnold, 1985, oil) plus full page reproduction (page 50) of The Raven (David Inshaw, 1971, oil).
Elsewhere in the issue are reproductions of A Quiet Gathering (Graham Arnold, 1983, oil, page 18) and Rock Formation (Graham Ovenden, oil, page 19)
Graham Ovenden
'The Child. the Doll & the Outside World'
Family Found, The Lifetime Obsession of Self-Taught Artist, Morton Bartlett
Simsbury, Connecticut, Marion Harris, 1994, pages 24-26
ISBN 0-9643159-0-4
The Green Book, Issue 5, Spring/Summer 1981
Soft card, 18pp
Includes a short essay by Graham Ovenden on Arthur Hughes. Also included are reproductions of works by Graham Ovenden and other Ruralist artists as well as a short piece by Nicholas Usherwood on the 1981 Ruralist exhibition.
Graham Ovenden (editor and preface)
James Sellers: Artist - Writer - Teacher
Cornwall, Ruralist Fine Art, 2003
Publications Utilising Graham Ovenden’s Work
Book and Magazine Covers
Sue Gee
The Hours of the Night
Century
ISBN 0-7126-5793-2
Dustjacket reproduces one of Graham Ovenden’s paintings
A.N. Wilson
Dream Children
London, John Murray, 1998
ISBN 0-7195-5762-3
Hardback, 218p
Dustjacket reproduces one of Graham Ovenden’s paintings
Russell Miller, Roger Boar
The Incredible Music Machine
London, Quartet/Visual Arts, 1982
ISBN 0-7043-2324-9
Hardback, 288p
Dustjacket and end-papers are a specially commissioned Graham Ovenden painting
Menniger Perspective. Issue No. 2, 1990
Topeka, Kansas
Cover reproduces The Little Bitch (oil, 1971)
LP Record Covers
 Paice Ashton Lord
Malice in Wonderland
Issued in 1976 on vinyl LP - re-issued in 1995 on CD
Cover illustration is a Graham Ovenden painting from his Alice in Wonderland series.
 Rosetta Stone
Foundation Stones
Issued in 1993, compilation CD
Uses one of Ovenden's 'Francis Hetling' photographs on the cover, without permission.
General Books About Art Which Include Graham Ovenden’s Work
General works - painting, photography, etc.
The Black and White Art Photographer: Journal Five, January 1992
Lucienne Zeger Ltd, 1992
Edited by China Hamilton
paperback, 81 pages
12 page feature on Graham Ovenden, including 11 East End of London photographs, brief introduction, Ovenden poem and a short account by Ovenden of the work. Front cover also features one of Ovenden’s photographs.
Art and Design
July/Aug 1986
ISSN 0267-3991
Contains a Graham Ovenden Lithograph based on a Cliché Papier design.
Edward Lucie-Smith
Art in the Seventies
Phaidon Press, Ltd, 1980
ISBN 0-7148-2027 X (hardback)
ISBN 0-7148-2071-7 (paperback)
128 pages
One paragraph of text and black and white reproduction of the painting Leah del Rivo (1978) on page 80.
Bradley Smith
20th Century Masters of Erotic Art
Fleetbooks, 1980
ISBN 0-517-542366
hardback, 222p
No textual references. The painting The Old Garden (1975-1978) is reproduced in colour on page 58 with caption.
Bradley Smith
Erotic Art of the Masters: The 18th, 19th & 20th Centuries
The Erotic Art Book Society
hardback, 206p
No textual references. A two-part painting is reproduced in colour on page 174-175 with caption.
Peter Webb
The Erotic Arts
Secker & Warburg, 1975
SBN 436-56550-1
hardback, 514p
Brief mentions in text on pages 186 and 400; the painting Belinda (1971) is reproduced as illustration 186 on page 239 in black and white.
O. E. Basil
'Un-schuldige Erotik'
In Magazin, issue 14 October 1991
Berlin, 1991, pages 56-59
Written in German. Includes reproductions of 6 paintings.
Minor references in journals and books and other bits and pieces
Architecture
Van Dakkapel tot Droomkastel
Catalogue accompanying exhibition art Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam
March - April 1978
Includes photograph (Ovenden) of Barley Splatt in early stages of development
Stage Design and Graphic Design
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Sterts Theatre Company
Summer Season, 1995
Stage design by Graham Ovenden.
Poster and programme design by Graham Ovenden and Roger Moss.
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