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A trove of linocuts by SG Boxsius
It beats me where all the Boxsius woodcuts and linocuts that have have come up for sale in the past few weeks and months actually come from. One reader believes the prints recently for sale on British...
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Email for Modern Printmakers
I have failed to tell readers the old email address people found on the blog was discontinued a month or two ago. I know at least one person has tried to contact me recently so apologies to them....
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Isabel de B Lockyer & the Islington Hoard
I came across Leigh Underwood in a guide where the gallery was described as specialists in colour woodcut and before not too long I was making my way to Camden Passage to see what they had. In the...
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For anyone who has already looked at the post about the change of email address, I have been sent a much better image of Unloading gravel.
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Scottish Bridge, 1921, by Ian Cheyne
As discoveries go, this early colour woodcut by the Scottish artist, Ian Cheyne, must be one of the most unexpected and surprising I have made. Unfortunately, the size entailed only reproducing the...
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Hans Frank revisited
One way or another I always find Hans Frank hard to avoid and here I am again looking at his early prints. Frank had a long and varied career which began while still a student at the School of Applied...
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The week-end on ebay
A round-up of the prints to be found for sale on ebay this week-end has to begin with Helen Hyde's Butterflies made in 1908. To start with I need to say the image above is not the one for sale. At...
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Print & prejudice: Ethel Kirkpatrick at the V&A
The V&A South Kensington cannot have heard about the Ethel Kirkpatrick Society (and perhaps you haven't either). To curators at large institutions like the V&A, artists like Kirkpatrick have...
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The colour woodcuts of Winifred McKenzie
I heard last week from a reader in Scotland about a proof of Winifred McKenzie's colour woodcut Waterfall (third from top) from 1935 coming up for sale in Edinburgh. Like the rest of McKenzie's colour...
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The curious rise of S.G. Boxsius
Clive Christie recently suggested to me that S. G. Boxsius was 'an artist for uncertain times'. Readers who have been round long enough will know that Clive can be relied on for such perceptive...
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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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