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John Hall Thorpe & Bemrose and Sons
As some of you will know, John Hall Thorpe training was in commercial work in Sydney where he was on the staff of two newspapers before he moved to Britain in He had already made a few etching whilst...
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Land of Hope & Glory: the colour woodcuts of E.A. Hope
The only reason the colour woodcuts of E.A. Hope have not been featured on Modern Printmakers before is because so few can be seen anywhere - until now, that is. I have a record of eleven colour...
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To my friends Lucy & Ted: the woodcuts of Elsie Garrett Rice
The woodcut (above) belongs to a reader who was fortunate enough to acquire the proof inscribed to the artist Marion Gill and her brother, Edwin. It is called Boston from the river or Boston Stump....
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Katharine Jowett for sale by auction at Dominic Winter
A reader tipped me me off today about a group of seven colour linocuts by the British artist, Katherine Jowett, coming up for sale at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Gloucestershire this coming Friday....
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Jessie Garrow at McTears
Edward Burne Jones was appalled when he realised that his young friend and follower, Aubrey Beardsley, wanted to be a graphic artist and not a painter like himself. It was so outside Burne Jones take...
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S. G. Boxsius 'October'
October by S.G. Boxsius is not the rarest print of the ones I am sure he made. I have never seen either the colour woodcut Rouge et noir nor the linocut with the intriguing title Ruins at Walberswick...
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'Etched in memory, the elevated art of J. Alphege Brewer' by Benjamin S. Dunham
The kind of colour etchings that James Alphege Brewer made from about 1912 onwards were never popular with British artists until the sixties and seventies when artists like Graham Clarke made small...
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'S. G. Boxsius from the Roof' : a prospectus for a new book & two new images
As artists of lesser standing and with less appeal than S.G. Boxsius have had small books published about them in recent years, I thought it was time Boxsius had one to himself more or less. This...
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The colour linocuts of Leslie Moffat Ward
I was reminded of Leslie Moffat Ward's colour linocuts when a reader told me he had bought one. There are six that I know of and like all of Ward's work they vary in their appeal. This does not mean...
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A colour woodcut of the Thames by Leslie Moffat Ward
If nothing else this fetching colour print by Leslie Moffat Ward is further proof of what I said about him in the last post. The reader who sent it to me yesterday described it as a colour woodcut...
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The colour woodcuts of Concord & Cavendish Morton
The colour woodcuts made together by the twin brothers, Concord and Cavendish Morton, in the early 1930s account for only a small part of their careers as artists but nevertheless were a diverting...
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Elizabeth Colwell: Reading, Cornwall & Chicago
Never a good idea, but I had always believed for no special reason that Frank Morley Fletcher's Woodblock printing published in Britain in 1916 was the first manual on the subject in English. I was...
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Yoshijiro Urushibara visits Kew Gardens
Quite a few years ago, someone had a blog where they identified at least some of the vases Yoshijiro Urushibara made use of in his flower prints. It was not a pottery I was familiar with, I don't...
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Hilary Chapman's 'John Edgar Platt, master of the colour woodcut' for sale.
In 2018, Hilary Chapman bought out John Edgar Platt, master of the colour woodcut as an updated version of a book about Platt's colour woodcuts she had published way back in 1999 and which had long...
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The colour linocuts of Norbertine von Bresslern Roth
Over the years the linocuts of Norbertine von Bresslern Roth have received scant attention on Modern Printmakers. There are various reasons for this, none of them very good ones, especially as her...
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Robert Howey, north & south
Of all the British artists I have written about, Robert Howey is about the only one I can think of who kept a base at his home in the northern town of West Hartlepool but managed to have a career as a...
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Ian Cheyne, S.G. Boxsius & John Hall Thorpe at Mallam's
I owe a debt to the two readers who wrote to tell me about the forthcoming sale of modern prints at Mallam's in Oxford on Wednesday, 8th December. It is not only a matter of the sale including an...
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The black bull: the print catalogue of S.G. Boxsius
The only way a collector of prints made by an individual artist can really know what they are doing is to have a catalogue if their work. Even now, very few of the colour print artists who have...
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Eric Slater at auction
I was surprised to see Eric Slater's colour woodcut The Avenue sold for only £500 in the autumn. As readers will know, I am not a big fan of Slater, but this print is one of his better landscapes and...
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