Bill Jacklin’s New York

As an Englishman in New York since 1985, the artist Bill Jacklin has concentrated on painting urban portraits of the city in all its guises – from large-scale canvases of crowds in flux to intimate moments in Seurat-like etchings. The first full treatment of Jacklin’s New York paintings is a visual celebration of the artist’s fascination with his adopted city, its energy, its light, its movement, and its people.

Bill Jacklin’s work is held by many major institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institution, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Royal Academy, The British Museum, and The Tate Gallery. His paintings have been exhibited at the Marlborough Gallery in London and New York since the 1980s and he has participated in numerous one-man and group exhibitions around the world from the 1970s until today. He is a member of the Royal Academy in London.

In the Foreword, Sting, who is a fellow Englishman in New York, writes on the artist and their relationship with the city. Leading art historian Michael Peppiatt contributes an insightful interview with the artist, providing an overview of his body of work as shaped by New York.

As the first monograph on Bill Jacklin for over 20 years, this fully illustrated volume is a significant contribution to the study of an internationally acclaimed artist, and serves as a lasting celebration of the magnificence of New York City.