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Emil Orlik and a Colnaghi wash mount on ebay
This is something by way of a public service announcement. I certainly don't think the dealer who currently has the Emil...
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Classic colour woodcuts on ebay from Austria and Germany
Christmas has come to ebay in Austria and Germany with an astonishing review of early C20th of colour woodcut, and with nothing more striking than Hans Frank's exquisite tour-de-force Schwartzlilien...
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Carl Moser: castles of refinement
We have come to associate Tyrol with colour woodcut. Even if Engelbert Lap was born in Graz, he served with the Tyrolean...
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Margaret Romanes: art & psychoanalysis
Yes, I know. The Scottish artist, Margaret Romanes, with her bird and flower woodcuts that somehow seem to miss the point, is probably the last person you would associate with the...
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Shinsui Ito 'Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Keith'
One day in 1923 the Canadian artist, Walter Phillips, was taken to Notting Hill Gate in London to meet the critic...
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Walter Phillips 'Winter woodcuts'
Walter Phillips was one of those in between artists who it takes some while to discover the kind of art that suits them. He has been claimed by the Canadians as one of their own, reasonably enough...
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A footnote about Malcolm Salaman & Arthur Briscoe
There was a mention recently (in the post about Shinsui Ito and his 'Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Keith) of...
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Leslie Moffat Ward: news from nearby
Leslie Moffat Ward could travel as far as he liked to find fresh subjects but the farther he went, so far as I am concerned, the...
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The embroiderers
Now and again I come across an image of a woman sewing or doing embroidery or one that shows her work-basket or what...
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Claughton Pellew at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
This weekend an exhibition of paintings and wood-engravings by the glorious and original Claughton Pellew opens in the...
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Arthur Wesley Dow: lost chances along Ipswich River
I begin to wonder what exactly was in Arthur Wesley Dow's...
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Kenneth Broad, Paolo Uccello & others
I have no doubt that sooner or later someone with a Pinterest page will come along and swipe Kenneth's Broad's The harbour, Brittany for their little scrap-book. I suppose I don't mind all that much...
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A modernist colour linocut for sale on ebay
Before you all go hurrying off to look at British ebay, the colour linocut proof up for sale right now is not the superb...
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The word on Willie
Until two or three years ago, there used to be a shop on Mansfield...
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The colour linocuts of Norah Pearse
A copy of Exeter School of Art magazine with a lithograph on the front by Norah Pearse came up for sale on ebay a few weeks...
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Z was the zoo
In 1896 this famous poster designed by Theodore Steinlen was used to advertise a tour by the company from Le chat...
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Walther Klemm and Carl Thiemann, two masters of the colour woodcut at Dachau
Just opened on Friday at the Art Gallery, Dachau, 'Walther Klemm und Carl Thiemann: Zwei Meister des Farbholzschnitts'. The...
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Lill Tschudi: the Latin Quarter
Somewhere or other Stendhal mocked the Jardin des Tuileries for being a superficial imitation of Italian style. (I can't...
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