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Tea with Mr Nash: the Cornerhouse lithographs
I have advance notice of a cache of lithographs first published by Lyons & Co in the forties and fifties and...
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Swans... William Giles, Hans Neumann, Carl Thiemann
There was a comment from a reader in...
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From the shadows: the prints of Sydney Lee at the Royal Academy
My own view of the prints of Sidney Lee may well be equivocal, but there is no getting round the comments left in...
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Robert Gibbings: the Fenian and the Orangeman
The allusion to his Irish background in this colour woodcut by Robert Gibbings is both troublesome and fascinating. Is...
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Leo Frank
When all around them, everyone had gone woodcut-crazy, from Emil Orlik with his raw Ruthenian peasants to Carl Thiemann and...
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Von Bresslern Roth on ebay
Out of interest a couple of linocuts by Norbertine von Bresslern Roth have come up on US ebay. I've not seen either of these...
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Eric Hesketh Hubbard: art & graft
Eric Hesketh Hubbard was a man of many parts, as the prints you see may suggest. Not only was he a remarkably...
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Alphonse Legros and the 1890s
If there was one thing the British artist William Rothenstein liked better than drawing ageing or elderly men,...
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Slater's Sussex: the colour woodcuts of Eric Slater
Here is a must for the bookshelves of anyone with more than a passing interest in British colour woodcut: Slater's Sussex, a book by James...
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3 new woodcuts by Eric Slater
I say new not so much because they are new to me but simply because untill recently the subtlety of Eric Slater's colour...
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Slater's Sussex, the colour woodcuts of Eric Slater: a review
A very unusual event this week,...
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Sylvan Boxsius 'Afterglow'
For all fans of the British artist, SG Boxsius, an image of his 1933 linocut Afterglow has turned up. It's a fine image, seeing...
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Half-colour colour woodcuts
On Monday a print called A Highland Loch by the Scottish artist, Helen Stevenson, went for just over £200. This may...
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A bookplate by Carl Moll
I am sorry about how few posts there have been on Modern Printmakers recently, but here is something for everyone who is colour...
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D.N. Morgan
Here's an unusual and attractive British printmaker you don't come across very often, the colour woodcut artist,...
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On ebay in Germany
This week German ebay provides you with an opportunity to see one or two colour woodcuts you will not see very often as well as one or two nice-looking prints by more well-known artists. Above all,...
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Walter J. Phillips by Nancy Green
Books about colour woodcut or linocut artists are becoming something of a cottage industry this year. Leonard Beaumont, Sidney Lee and Eric Slater are now joined by...
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Modern Wood Block Prints at Brown-Robertson Gallery, New York, 1921
The vogue of the block print is rapidly increasing among those that admire modern decorative effect, and it is an art that holds out a...
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