
Old Dogs (Hardback)
Sally Muir (author)- In stock

Growing out of her ‘A Dog a Day’ project on Facebook, Old Dogs brings together artist Sally Muir’s moving portraits of senior canine companions, inspired by photos and stories sent to her by the public.
Following the success of A Dog a Day, Sally Muir returns with a collection of new, but crucially old, faces.
Several years ago Sally Muir began a Facebook project, posting dog art daily, which became the best-selling book A Dog A Day. Through the project she was introduced to endless people and their dogs, and the distinct personalities and complex emotions that owners attribute to them. More recently, Sally's project changed focus and she asked the public to send in photographs of their old dogs. Featuring grey muzzles, milky eyes and wobbly legs, as well as tender anecdotes picked up from a whole lifetime of companionship, Sally Muir's paintings of our more senior canines are collected here for the first time.
Sally Muir is well known for her portrayal of dogs, with Elderly Dog featuring in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2018 and Hound following up in the Summer Exhibition in 2019. The popularity of Elderly Dog has fuelled Sally's desire to continue to paint older dogs, and celebrate the ageing process of our favourite pets in grace and style. From loose sketches and lithographs to potato prints and oil paintings, Old Dogs includes a range of mediums that Sally has become known for, and embraces dogs of all shapes and sizes: big, small, pedigree and cross breed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781911663195
Number of pages: 128
Dimensions: 185 x 135 mm
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'Muir's dog portraiture ... demonstrates the artist's technical range and her keen understanding of essential doggishness. ... Muir's mastery of the expressive capacity of the canine eye in particular makes these paintings live and pant.'
-- Claudia Massie * The Spectator *You may also be interested in...
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