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.
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