Modern Painters

The Penguin Modern Painters series dates from the late forties, and has seen three designs, all oversized and containing color photographs of the artists’ works. The original series was hardbound with stapled bindings, but later series were converted to paperback. The MP prefix later the a four-issue “Penguin New Art,” numbered 21-24.

#	Title	Author	Year
MP1	Henry Moore	Geoffrey Grigson	1944
MP2	Graham Sutherland	Edward Sackville-West	1944
MP3	Duncan Grant	Raymond Mortimer	1944
MP4	Paul Nash	Sir Herbert Edward Read	1944
MP5	Matthew Smith	Philip Hendy	1944
MP6	John Piper	John Betjeman	1944
MP7	Edward Burra	John Rothenstein	1945
MP8	Victor Pasmore	Clive Bell	1945
MP9	Edward Bawden	J. M. Richards	1947
MP10	Stanley Spencer	Eric Newton	1947
MP11	Ben Shahn	James Thrall Soby	1947
MP12	William Nicholson	Robert Nichols	1948
MP13	Ben Nicholson	John Summerson	1948
MP14	Frances Hodgkins	Myfanwy Evans	1948
MP15	David Jones	Robin Ironside	1949
MP16	Paul Klee	Douglas Cooper	1949
MP17	Ivon Hitchens	Patrick Heron	1955
MP18	(Not Issued)
MP19	Edward Hopper	Lloyd Goodrich	1950
MP20	Braque	John Richardson	1959
MP21	Frank Stella	Robert Rosenblum	1971
MP22	Patrick Caufield	Christopher Finch	1971
MP23	Robyn Denny	David Thompson	1971
MP24	Claes Oldenburg	Ellen Johnson	1971