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William Neave Parker: 'March' and other prints on ebay
There continues to be something of a trove of prints by the British artist and illustrator, William Neave Parker, on ebay,...
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Yet more from British ebay
One of the minor pleasures of researching artists is attempting to trace their West London studios. There used to be a large number of these and many still survive but their locations are often far...
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To Tangier with Ethel Kirkpatrick
Some months ago a reader sent me this new image of Ethel Kirkpatrick's The orange seller. I had only seen it in a...
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Five proofs by Elizabeth Christie Austen Brown
I am here to make amends today - very belated amends. Five years ago I put up a post about the colour woodcut proofs you see...
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A radical view: modern British prints 1914 to 1964, Osborne Samuel, London,...
I am afraid you only have a week to see this exhibition now but if you are in London, it will be well worth seeing, so...
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Edgar Degas: monotypes at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to 24th July
Camille Pissarro once described the monotypes made by Edgar Degas in the 1870s as 'a bit slovenly and askew'. Even...
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In with the new: Mabel Royds & Alphonse Legros
It is a very curious thing to discover (or at least to believe you have discovered) one of the sources of a print you have...
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Art for all, colour woodcut in Vienna 1900: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, and...
The exhibition (and the book) we have all been waiting for and deserve. It opens at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt on 6th July, 2016, and runs until 3rd October. It then moves to the Albertina,...
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Hugo Henneberg, the first linocut virtuoso
Around 1904 the Viennese artist, Hugo Henneberg, made this remarkable colour linocut he called Der blaue Weiher (the blue pond),...
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Kazuyuki Ohtsu, a cherry tree at full moon
There is just one aspect of Kazuyuki Ohtsu's career as a maker of woodblocks that everyone mentions and it is the...
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Istanbul
One of the more extraordinary aspects of old Muslim cities is the way they living co-exist with the dead. Cemeteries are a...
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Oskar Laske, the White Angel Apothecary & mosaic
As soon as I read the comment left by Andreas this morning about Oskar Laske, I knew I had a lead for another post. And here it...
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Some colour woodcuts on British ebay
There has been such a dearth of good colour woodcuts on British ebay for such a long time, I began to wonder whether...
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Colour woodcuts up for sale (and one you missed)
A reader commented a few days ago that he was lucky enough...
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Yoshijiro Urushibara, a Japanese printmaker in London: Hilary Chapman and...
It was in the nature of things, I suppose, that Yoshijiro Urushibara went to live somewhere on the boundaries of Holland Park...
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Ken Hoshino
As it is Urushibara week, I offer this post on the scholar and dealer, Ken Hoshino, as my...
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Yoshijiro Urushibara, a Japanese printmaker in London: Hilary Chapman & Libby...
The problem with quite a few people who write about art is that they do not know how to look at...
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Summer holidays
Modern Printmakers will be on holiday from today for a week, so there may be a delay to replying to comments. Please...
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A cosmopolitan show at the Hasse Gallery, Leeds, in 1929
One notable thing about the British colour print movement (and I'm including colour etching and linocut) is how many artists from...
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