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The mid-week round-up on ebay
Yes, I know it's only Wednesday but Clive (who will be well-known to many readers for The Blog That Vanished -...
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Ethel Kirkpatrick & watercolour
What we know so far about the early training of Ethel Kirkpatrick is sketchy and but she had begun to paint in...
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Claude Flight: a linocut evangelist
Claude Flight had a nice line in pithy sayings. 'I am a lone figure, belonging to no school' was one of his most...
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John Austen
The British artist, John Austen (1886 - 1948) is best known as a prolific illustrator of books throughout the 1920s and...
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Alice Coats
One day some time around 1922, a student at Birmingham Central School of Arts and Crafts found a copy of Morley...
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Goodbye, Japan: British colour woodcut in the twenties
Edward Bawden once noted, 'One can have too much of Japan,' a sentiment many young (and not so young) printmakers echoed...
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Mid-week on ebay
At last here is exactly the kind of thing that doesn't come up often enough, namely a good colour woodcut that has started off...
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The Antipodes, the arts & crafts & Margaret Preston
The to-and-fro of printmakers between New Zealand, Australia and Britain is fairly well-known now but even with an artist as...
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How prints start: Helen Stevenson, William Giles, Ursula Fookes
Early on in 1929, Helen Stevenson had four of her colour woodcuts on show at the Bromhead Gallery in Cork Street,...
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Bror Nordfeldt & colour woodcut
Of all the artists who made colour woodcuts, Bror Nordfeldt is the best to play spot-the-influence with. The ironic thing...
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Kenneth Broad: the information act
Of all the British artists who ever made a colour woodcut, Kenneth Broad is the most informative (and I say this in the face of fairly strong opposition from the likes of Allen Seaby and Ethel...
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S G Boxsius: At Walberswick
I have a list of thirty linocuts by the British artist Sylvan Boxsius. I have only ever seen sixteen of them and Spring is so hard to reproduce, I can hardly include that: a small ploughman labours...
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This week on ebay
I remember going through a pile of things that had belonged to an friend who had died and his executor (who was standing...
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Elizabeth York Brunton
There must be a process whereby an artist becomes an enigma. How it came about for the Scottish printmaker, Elizabeth York Brunton, I do not know, but certainly an enigma is exactly what she has...
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Ethel Kirkpatrick: an outgoing fleet
Thomas Kirkpatrick died only a very few years after he had had a house called The Grange built at Harrow-on-the-Hill in...
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Janet Fisher
For an artist of such sweet simplicity, Janet Fisher (1862 - 1926) uses a helluva lot of black. But then she was...
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More from Mary Wrinch
I posted on the Canadian artist Mary Wrinch two years ago, and and although I have nothing much to add, I did come...
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Portrait of the artist
I had to give this post a general theme, I suppose, but really it isn't much more than excuse to string together some favourite...
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Lamorna & Sennen
If Laura Knight thought Staithes in Yorkshire was 'life in the raw', when she moved to Lamorna, she must have thought...
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SG Boxsius: poet of understatement
Of all the artists I have dealt with here, SG Boxsius has turned out to be one of the most well-liked. He has...
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