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Forthcoming books on colour woodcut
Readers will be interested to know that the cause of modern colour woodcut is advancing both in the United States and in Britain, with major books expected on the subject in both countries. The...
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A Christmas card from Ernst Stoehr
A reader in Scotland has out me on to some prints by Ernst Stoehr (1865 - 1917) that made use of lino for the very first time between 1904 and 1908. At first sight none are obviously linocuts in the...
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Road to the isles: Helen G Stevenson & Norma Bassett Hall
On 16th June, 1925, the American artist, Norma Bassett Hall arrived in Glasgow after sailing by ship from the United States with her husband, Arthur William Hall. The Halls immediately travelled on to...
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The studio at Liboc: Walther Klemm & early colour woodcut
Walther Klemm enrolled at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1902. This was the year a number of Austrian artists associated with the Secession began making colour woodcuts. In the spring a colour...
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The colour woodcuts of Wilfred Rene Wood
Wilfred Wood is an artist with whom you need to exercise a degree of judgement. He turned out large numbers of chocolate-box watercolours (and a few colour woodcuts) that belie the thorough training...
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The shin hanga woodcuts of Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
During the twenties, the American illustrator, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge and his wife, Caroline Singer, travelled extensively in the east, arriving in Pekin some time in 1924 or 1925. While there he made...
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Ohara Koson: prints & signatures
Recently I advised readers to mug up on the signature of the Japanese artist and printmaker, Ohara Koson. All very well, but it is not as straightforward as that, but nevertheless well worth the try....
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The gospel according to Walter
Walter Phillips was never slow to give an opinion and often had the opportunity to do so either his newspapers columns in Canada or in books he wrote like The technique of colour woodcut. Amongst...
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Eric Slater & the mystery of Icklesham Mill
As some of you will already know, Eric Slater's colour woodcut Tregenna Castle Hotel (below) is up for sale on ebay with only a couple of days left to go. Only yesterday a reader commented that...
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Nancy E. Green 'From Edinburgh to Santa Barbara: Frank Morley Fletcher's...
Credit: William P Carl Fine PrintsFor many years now, Nancy E. Green has been a leading scholar in the field of the American Arts & Crafts movement...
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Isabel de Bohun Lockyer: a pioneer of British colour linocut
Isabel de B. Lockyer was the first British artist to make exceptional colour linocuts wothout trying to ignore the colour prints other artists had made. She began exhibiting them in 1923 the same year...
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Some classic British colour woodcuts on ebay
At last something has turned up on British ebay that I am sure is the kind of thing collectors will be looking for. I mean one of the two images Allen Seaby made of magpies in the classic bird print...
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King of the wild frontier: the colour woodcuts of Gustave Baumann
.Gustave Baumann has an ambiguous place in the history of modern American printmaking for two reasons. Firstly, he arrived in Chicago from Germany at the age of ten but returned to train in Munich as...
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Gertrude Brodie's 'Castle Hill, Settle'
.It has taken a long time for a second picture in Gertrude Brodie's lamps of Settle series to turn up, but it was worth the wait. Castle Hill, Settle (above) came up for auction in Gloucestershire...
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: Adolf Kunst : a god of small things :
It was the French artist, Theodore Roussel, who re-introduced the British to the special intimacy and pleasure to be derived from small prints when Goupil put on a sensational show of small aquatints...
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The mystery of Lawrence Bell
A few years ago, a reader did a lot of research into a young artist called Lawrence Bell who trained at the Bushey School of Art in Hertfordshire. Since then other documents have appeared online...
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William Giles 'Midsummer Night': the story so far
I would like to dedicate another post to Midsummer night first exhibited in 1912 by William Giles. There are various reasons for this. Firstly, there is the sheer unforgettable impact of the method...
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Laurence Bell: new information & prints
Since I put up the post about Laurence Bell recently, a number of readers have written to me, including one who sent this print from his collection today. So far as I am aware, this is the first time...
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A Christmas card by Laurence Bell
This is all starting to look like an end-of-term report. I have finally dug out my Christmas card designed by Laurence Bell for his publisher, Burlington Fine Arts. The most important aspect to all...
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Arthur Rigden Read's 'Valencia'
As there is a copy of this print for sale which people may have seen, I wanted to explain exactly what it is. The print suggests like nothing else he made how much broader Read's approach to making...
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