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The colour linocuts of Berta Coucke
I suspect your first reaction to Flemish artist, Berta Coucke, and her colour linocut Les deux chateaux (above) that...
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Frances Blair: woodcuts, linocuts and a check-list
It is now ten years since I posted on the Scottish artist, Frances Merritt Blair (1881 - 1954) and in that time no new images of...
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S.G. Boxsius for sale by auction
Coming up on 18th January at Bearnes in Exeter are two fairly early colour linocuts by S.G. Boxsius. The main attraction will...
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Font size
Not surprisingly, there has been comment about the change in font size on the blog and I want to reassure readers that the change of size within some of the individual posts is not an eccentricity,...
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The colour woodcut class at Edinburgh College of Art
It has been believed for many years now that Frank Morley Fletcher taught a colour woodcut class during his time as principal of Edinburgh College of Art, a period that ran from 1907 to 1923. I want...
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Gertrude Brodie's 'View from my Essex window'
I am sure readers will remember the second of two posts about a series of conte crayon and gouache drawings by the Essex artist and teacher, Gertrude Brodie, which I called 'The lamps of Settle'. I am...
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Four colour woodcuts by Patience Galloway
This week's sale of colour prints at Exeter has reminded me that Patience Galloway is overdue a re-appraisal. I suspect, she is Isabel Patience Galloway (1900 - 1979) from Blackheath, Kent but with...
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Three Ethel Kirkpatricks at auction
I heard only this morning that Dreweatts in Newbury have three colour woodcuts by the British artist, Ethel Kirkpatrick, in their forthcoming sale on 10th February. As readers of long-standing will...
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Arthur Rigden Read's 'The mandarin gown' at Bentley's
Perhaps things are looking up for colour woodcut, because I now hear that Arthur Rigden Read's show-stopper The mandarin gown (1927) is up for sale this coming Saturday (4th February) at Bentley's in...
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Night and day at the Villa Henneberg
Yet again I have been put onto something intriguing by the vigilant Jim Barnes in Scotland. This time it is an unexpected connection between the Scottish art nouveau designer, Margaret MacDonald, and...
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William Lee Hankey, Wilfred Fairclough & Charles Mackie at Parker Fine Art
There is a good selection of prints and watercolours coming up at Parker Fine Art at Farnham on 9th February, including fairly expensive work by Laura Knight. Needless to say, Knight is never likely...
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Update on Parker Fine Art on 7th February
There appears to be a definite trend which is in favour of the artists that readers of Modern Printmakers admire. Or, rather I should say, in favour of readers themselves, because the results at...
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The colour woodcuts of Edith Richards
I am not sure why I have never got around to the work of Edith Richards. At one time, colour woodcuts by her could be...
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Ethel Kirkpatrick: from auction-house to ebay
I know full well that dealers move pictures around. They buy them in one place and immediately try and sell them somewhere else. I am sure many of us have done the same thing at times. I know I have....
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Allen Seaby colour woodcuts at Cirencester
It makes a change to have two lots of one colour woodcut each being offered for sale by auction instead of everything being included in one lot as happened with Ethel Kirkpatrick not long ago. This...
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Further colour prints and all at Cirencester
A long time ago I put up a post about Chris Wormell's work for Adnam's brewery at Southwold. (He also did package designs for Waitrose which I regret not keeping). I remember picking up a copy of his...
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Classic British black-and-white prints (plus another Seaby) from the...
By now, readers may have drawn the same conclusion as myself about the current trend we are seeing. It looks very much like the British prints now coming up for sale were collected during the great...
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Before the storm: colour woodcut & Dagmar Hooge
.I cannot explain why it has taken me so long to get round to the colour woodcuts of Dagmar Hooge. First impressions counted and that is for sure. Nonetheless, I am surprised they have proved so...
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Gerrie Casper's 'Das Haus der Frau'
Many readers will be familiar with Gerrie Casper's long-running and much-loved blog, The Linosaurus. I had a reminder this morning about all the work Gerrie had also put into his two volumes called...
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Print & textile : Valerie Petter-Zeis
When I looked at the whole sheet of Valerie Petter Zeiss' colour woodcut (above), it made me think of the work Bernard Rice did in Bosnia about the same time, especially the way the hand-made paper...
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