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At the age of eight James Hart Dyke saw a small oil study by John Constable which inspired him to start painting narrative landscapes.  

 

James gravitates to spatially dramatic locations, such as remote mountain ranges, often enduring physically demanding expeditions,  although the UK landscape will always be central to his work. He has a strong interest in the Early Romantic Movement which played a large part in the popularisation of the Alps and which lead to the notion of the 'sublime.'  

 

As a painter James sits between the act of narration, a direct depiction of the landscape, and that of an abstract painter, focusing on the texture and brushwork of the paint. He is continually studying the work of the abstract expressionist painter Richard Diebenkorn as well as always referring to the studies of John Constable.

 

James has also undertaken a series of projects including 'artist in residence' for The British Secret Intelligence Service,  artist embedded with the British Forces, working for the producers of the James Bond films, workin

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James D. Hart

American literary scholar

James David Hart, CBE[1] (April 18, 1911 – 23 July 1990) was an American literary scholar and professor at University of California, Berkeley for fifty-four years. He is most notable for writing The Oxford Companion to American Literature and A Companion to California.

Biography

Hart was born in San Francisco, California. He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, followed by a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

While studying for his doctorate at Harvard University, Hart conceived and began work on an American literature companion book. It is reported that in 1934, after looking for such a book among second-handbookstores on what was Fourth Avenue below 14th Street in Manhattan, New York to no avail, Hart entered the offices of Oxford University Press on Fifth Avenue upon passing. Inside, on a whim, he told the receptionist that he had an idea for a book, which prompted editor Margaret Nicholson to come out to meet him. He questioned her about the existence of such a book, to which she replied, "W

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James McDougal Hart was born on 10 May 1828, in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, the same township as the poet, Robert Burns. William, his older brother, would also become a landscape painter. In 1831, their parents, James and Marion (Robertson) Hart emigrated to Albany, New York. James was apprenticed to a coach-maker decorating ornamental panels, according to some authorities; to a sign and banner painter, according to other sources. He exhibited two landscapes at the Albany Gallery of Art in 1849, seven the following year. Having acquired the rudimentary skills of painting. Hart travelled in 1850 to Munich and Düsseldorf, Germany, where he studied under the landscape painter, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, who was one of the Academy's most important teachers. While in Germany the artist made a sketching tour, for the most part on foot, along the Rhine and in the Austrian Tyrol.

Hart returned to America in 1853, opening a studio in Albany, teaching and painting there until 1857, when he moved to New York City. The artist became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1858, a

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