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Old mill, Sussex by Sylvan Boxsius
I wouldn't normally want to post a print as weak as this, and it is only here because it is of considerable interest. I would...
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A tale of two prints: William Giles and 'Midsummer Night'
For a long time I used to wonder why it was that William Giles was considered the leader of the colour print movement...
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Thirty-six views of Hideo Hagiwara
This is not the first time I have written about an artist who lost a substantial...
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William Lee Hankey's deserted village
In 1909 a new edition of Oliver Goldsmith's poem The Deserted...
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Looks familar? The art of borrowing
Oscar Wilde once famously said to J.M. Whistler, 'I wish that I'd said that, Jimmie,' to which Whistler replied, 'You will, Oscar, you will.' Wilde...
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John Hall Thorpe
I am not going to deny that the Australian printmaker, John Hall Thorpe, hasn't received short shrift on Modern...
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Seventh International Printmakers Exhibition, Los Angeles Museum, 1926
It took a Londoner like Arthur Rigden Read to...
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Christmas with George Scott Ingles
Here is an artist who is usually passed over when it comes to his colour woodcuts, mainly because he appeared to make...
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The paintings of Ohara Koson
The role that was played by scholars and collectors like Ernest Fennellosa and Edward Morse in the revival of colour woodcut is a...
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Modern Printmakers update
No doubt people are wondering what has happened to Modern Printmakers. The blog has been inactive for a while due to...
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What makes a winner? Colour prints at Los Angeles
I am probably not doing myself any favours with a post like this but here goes, anyway. At the end of the first war, the Society of California Printmakers held their first annual international...
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Charles Paine & stained glass
I would like to say that I have here an example of the work in stained glass by the British designer Charles Paine. Unfortunately, this fetching little bird is the work of John Platt (at All Saints,...
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Julia Mavrogordato revisited
Time was there was so little work by Julia Mavrogordato available online, it was hard to tell what kind of an artist...
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Allen Seaby 'Art & Nature' at Reading Museum
To add to the list of early C20th British colour print artists with new exhibitions and books, we now have the most deserving so...
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Hans Neumann & Otto's legacy
The Otto of the title is Otto Eckmann, the German painter who sold off all his paintings in 1894 and worked solely as...
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Allen W Seaby, Art and Nature: Martin Andrews & Robert Gillmor
Anyone who sets out to produce a small book about the British artist, author and educationalist, Allen Seaby, will be faced with a large predicament: what to make of it all, the bird illustrations,...
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Hans Neumann's 'Neuschnee'
I've heard today from a reader in Germany who recently bought a proof of Hans Neumann's woodcut Neuschnee. It differs quite a lot...
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Edna Boies Hopkins
I never appreciated just how good Edna Boies Hopkins was until the postman handed over a book about her this...
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Eric Slater's ebay
Following the recent sale of Eric Slater's well-known The coastguard station (below) for £720, we now have A Sussex Mill (above) with a...
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