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"Wren & Primroses"
From the edition issued in K.M. Guichard's British Etchers 1850-1940,
published by Robin Garton in 1977. Signed by the artist in pencil.Image
size 112mm x 94mm plus margins.Ref: Garton 19.
His etchings began following night-school classes at Goldsmiths College
in London. He had been inspired by the major Samuel Palmer
retrospective exhibition organised by Martin Hardie in London in 1926,
and his first etching was made in that year. He was particularly moved
by Palmer's early period Shoreham works which had been so influential
on fellow students such as Paul Drury, William Larkins and Graham
sutherland. He also acknowledged his admiration for the technical
craftsmanship of the older etcher, F.L.Griggs.Tanner was thus part of
the etching revival in England, but the market for etchings collapsed
following the economic depression of 1929, and by the growing use of
photography for illustration.
Tanner turned to teaching to earn his livelihood. His passion for
teaching fine art to young children was infused into many English
counties through his role as H.M. Inspector of Schools in primary
schools from 1935 to 1964. Tanner believed that the study of natural
things and the exploration of arts and crafts, music and poetry were
essential for the development of teachers and children. At the Ministry
of Education, he ran courses for primary teachers, often with Christian
Schiller.
Following his retirement in 1964, Tanner took up printmaking again with
dedication. He also had a sideline in topographical graphic book
illustration, collaborating with his wife, Heather Spackman, whom he
had married in 1931, and he published a number of books on printmaking
aimed at children. Wiltshire Village was reprinted as late as 1978, and
became a best seller. In 1932 they had moved into the house they built
outside Chippenham. Old Chapel Field, where the diarist Francis
Kilvert's ancestors lie buried. They lived there for the rest of their
lives, a founder and benefactor of the Crafts Study Centre, now at
Farnham Surrey.
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The Whittington Press
Wood/Linocut engraving by Howard Phipps dated 1985 and
signature: in pencil image size(mm): 200x150 paper size(mm):
295x245 :Howard Phipps (b.1954) is a painter, printmaker and
illustrator with a special interest in wood engraving. He studied
painting at the Gloucestershire College of Art between 1971 and 1975
specialising in engraving since the late 1970's. £165.00
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Frank Charles MEDWORTH (1892-1947)
Nativity
Wood engraving, signed and dated in pencil in lower margin,
21 x 26 cm plus margins. Printed to Japon small hole bottom left corner
some luckily even age toning to the paper but colours still bright
£285 inc delivery FRANK CHARLES MEDWORTH,(1892-1947), artist,
was born on 22 August 1892 at Southwark, London, son of Charles Joseph
Medworth, journeyman carpenter, Frank attended school at
Brighton from 1912 he studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and
Crafts . On 2 September 1914 he enlisted in the East Surrey
Regiment serving on the Western Front (where he received a
severe head wound) and with the King's African Rifles in East Africa.
Demobilized 1919, he continued his studies, at the
Westminster Technical Institute and School of Art. He taught at that
school (1923-34) and at the City of Hull College of Arts and Crafts
(1934-38). December 1938 Medworth left England with his
family to take up the post of lecturer-in-charge of the art department
at East Sydney Technical College. In 1944-45 Medworth was
also acting-director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales.
His exhibition of 120 works in June 1939 had taken Sydney's art critics
by surprise because of its unexpected versatility. Medworth committed
suicide on 11 November 1947 in the Reforma Hotel, Mexico
City.
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Jacques Boullaire (1893-1976)
is an artist and
a french
painter,
Born in Paris on December 23, 1893
to a family originally from
Champagne, Norman by his mother, Jacques Boullaire tires quickly to
deal with the publicity of his automobile brother industrialist
Louis Renault (1877-1944) , who married his sister Christiane
Boullaire (? - 1979), September 26, 1918. A student of Guy Arnoux
and Dimitrios Galanis, his first wood engravings were not made that
ten years later. He exhibited at the Tuileries from 1926, in the
'lounge of Independents' from 1927 to 1945, then at the show fall
from 1928.
He had been a sergeant in the Air
Force during the First World
War and once he had put his decorations away in the bottom of a
drawer, he had let himself be drawn into the advertising department
of a large French car company. He soon tired of catalogues and
posters, and went into original engraving: woodcarving,
lithography, graving tool and etching needle work. He had
well-established contacts with the "Crapouillot". He seemed to be
cut out for illustration work. He started in 1928 by illustrating
"Frederic and Bergerette", a charming tale by Alfred de Musset. In
the following years, he worked on two very fine books : "Cesar
Birotteau" and "Mrs Bovary" which came out at Mornay's. This was
the beginning of his art career!
He was drawn to the Pacific Islands
as a result of his marriage
to Anne Hervé, a Breton, the daughter of a French resident
in the
Tuamotu Islands, raised in the rough and austere solitude of a
Polynesian atoll where she, too, delighted in drawing and painting.
Jacques Boullaire then traveled in the Pacific Ocean and around
Polynesia; his approaches were methodical. His profession as an
illustrator had already put him in a position as an observer of
different particular or characteristic things. With a meticulous
and endless passion, he took down rapid graphic notes, sketches or
more detailed drawings
He later became an invited exhibitor
but non member of the
Society of Wood engraving Originale (SGBO), and organizes
exhibitions of his works He illustrated many books of engravings .
In 1959, Jacques Boullaire, former aviation photographer, became
official painter of the Navy. He died in Paris on October 3,
1976. Sold but Info left for buyer
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F eliu
Elías APA (1878-1948)
Wood engraving of a wheel engraver
signed and dated '39
£125 signature F.APA
Feliu Elias was a Catalan caricaturist, artist and painter. In the
first half of the 20th century, he published his caricatures in
several magazines, using the pseudonym Apa. He was a contributor to
¡Cu-Cut! and founded the magazine Papitu. He was also present
in
magazines L'Esquella de la Torratxa, El Senyor Canons and Mirador,
among many others.
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"Tewksbury Mill" signed
in pencil wood engraving by John
Hogarth 1926
Framed and Glazed original
but slightly scruffy frame £105
inc postage etc
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Uk prints first all are compressed images for better images sizes
etc or full condition report just ask
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