Publications

Since 2002, the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery has been focused on producing high-quality catalogues of it's collections. Each catalogue has been produced in hardback and has a full colour image for every entry.

Edward Bawden
Caroline Bacon, James McGregor

Edward Bawden donated the contents of his studio to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery between 1981 and 1989. The collection, consisting of over 3,000 items illustrates works from his student days in 1919, through to the 1980s and covers every medium he used from watercolours and prints to examples of his commercial designs. Featuring previously unpublished material, this book will prove an invaluable guide to the work of one of the most important artists of his generation.
Price : £25.00 + £6 p&p

Cecil Higgins Watercolour Catalogue
Evelyn Joll

The Gallery has been collecting British watercolours since 1951. In the past fifty years it has acquired some six hundred of the best known images and examples by leading artists from the late 16th century to the present. Fully illustrated in colour and produced in hardback, this superb catalogue is a indispensable guide to the gallery's collection.
Price £39.95 + £6 p&p

Cecil Higgins Print Catalogue
Caroline Bacon, James McGregor, Julia Nurse

Published as a companion to Cecil Higgins Watercolour Catalogue, this sumptuous and comprehensive catalogue details the print collection held in the Gallery. With over three hundred works fully illustrated, by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Hockney and Freud, this volume is an indispensable guide to the history of printmaking from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the 20th century and includes a full glossary of printmaking terms.
Price £35.00 + £6 p&p

To order contact chag@bedford.gov.uk or ring 01234 211222