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Classic British colour woodcuts for sale at Banbury
It is not often we are presented with a good choice of colour woodcuts in a single sale but the forthcoming auction at Banbury has an old collection of prints put together with care and good...
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Four new linocuts by Laurence Bell
I know there is more than one reader who collects the colour linocuts made by Laurence Bell. These images may not be new to them but they are new to me so I decided to put them up to augment the...
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A catalogue of the colour woodcuts of Allen Seaby
I once tried to get hold of the exhibition catalogues owned by the writer on colour woodcut, Alan Guest, but was unsuccessful. I was told they were 'only lists' even though such catalogues are...
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Results of the sale at Banbury (and what you did not see there)
I would like to say that any one of the colour prints you see here came up for sale at Banbury rather than the ones that did,...
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Ian Cheyne's 'The breakwater' at auction in Chicago
The great city of Chicago is many things but one thing it is not; it is not the Centre for Ian Cheyne Studies. A reader in Scotland told me on Monday about the current sale of Ian Cheyne's colour...
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Update on SG Boxsius 'Ruins at Walberswick' at Dallas
I thought about calling this update 'Ruins at Dallas' because I am told SG Boxsius' Ruins at Walberswick sold for only $150 yesterday. The only interest came from a reader who assumed it would go...
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The week on ebay plus arts & crafts in California
I have to lead with the S.G. Boxsius woodcut Winter because it is so unusual to have a print...
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The unusual case of Carl Rotky
If you have always had the impression that Carl Rotky was predictable, you may have to readjust for more than one reason. He is best known for his views of the Styrian mountain countryside in southern...
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The making of a masterpiece: Anna Findlay's 'The paper mill'
If The paper mill had been the only print Anna Findlay had ever made, it would still have a reputation as the one modern colour linocut that showed the way forward, even though no one followed,...
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Ernest Watson & American linocut
The California Society of Printmakers were in the habit of not distinguishing between colour woodcut and colour linocut. Instead they referred to them collectively as colour block prints (and the same...
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Four colour woodcuts by SG Boxsius at Leominster
I have been surprised on visits to Leominster recently how many antiques shops and centres you find there are. The overall effect is to make the place look tatty and temporary. In fact someone who...
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Alice Coates & John Platt at Shrewsbury
This is a very late alert about a timed sale by Hall's of Shrewsbury. It has been open for about two weeks and closes at 4pm on 31st October. Tomorrow is still not to late to snap up some very choice...
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'Wind' by S.G. Boxsius
.It has been a good year for S.G. Boxius. To my surprise, not one but two unrecorded linocuts have turned up (The black bull and Unloading gravel) and we have been able to ascertain the correct title...
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Colour prints on ebay this week.
I may as well begin with a stand-out linocut by Norbertine Bresslern Roth. Wolves is such an exquisite print when you see...
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Gertrude Brodie's 'Portrait of a tree in Giggleswick'
I wanted readers to know that another poster-size work by Gertrude Brodie has turned up. Unless the previous two, this one has a direct link with the artist herself because it was given to one her...
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'Spring' by S.G. Boxsius
A reader has just sent me photographs he has taken of his two proofs of S.G. Boxsius calendar image Spring to show just how much they can differ. As I had expressed doubts about the...
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The enigmatic E.A. Hope
Modern Printmakers is not short on women artists of the early C20th who have turned out to be hard to discover much about even though Hope herself was well-connected. Worse still, it is almost...
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E mail for Modern Printmakers
I needed an excuse to post Hugo Henneberg's colour linocut Dalmatia. It had not been online all that long when I came across it and is one of the few colour prints he made that was not part of the...
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Further information about S.G. Boxsius 'Spring'
I had always believed that S.G. Boxsius never dated any of his prints but I found out today that I was wrong. A reader generously gave me his spare copy of his calendar image, Spring (above)...
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Three drawings by Mabel Royds
I heard more today about what happened to the large collection of work by Mabel Royds that was left in her studio following her death in 1941. I have to say I was surprised by the variety but what you...
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The experimental Mr Batten: John Dixon Batten & British colour woodcut
John Dixon Batten's father, John Winterton Batten (above) had wanted him to be a lawyer and, like many of the young men of the time, including Frank Morley Fletcher, Batten went along with his...
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The ones that got away: Eli Marsden Wilson at Scarborough
I was only told about the recent sale at Scarborough after it had taken place, but included was a mahogany artist's cabinet and contents (below) that once belonged to Eli Marsden Wilson (it went for...
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The official guide to Agnes Reeve
When Agnes Reeve decided on a series of colour woodcuts taking London monuments both old and new for its subject, it was obviously not an original idea. Many such prints had been made before. They had...
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Another side to Scarborough: the photographs of Nelson Dawson
.An old interest in the work of Nelson Dawson has been given a new lease of life by a conversation with a reader (and some helpful back-up emails). I remember seeing a lot of small etchings by Dawson...
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S.G. Boxsius 'October' coming up at Exeter.
Here is a colour linocut by S.G. Boxsius that has a lot to recommend it but leaves me feeling perplexed. It was first exhibited with the Graver Printers in 1931 and suspect it was originally designed...
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