As discoveries go, this early colour woodcut by the Scottish artist, Ian Cheyne, must be one of the most unexpected and surprising I have made. Unfortunately, the size entailed only reproducing the middle of the image (not my doing) but it must have been identified as by him. It is also dated 1921. This means he was making colour woodcuts around five years before the earliest record we have. Now, that does not surprise me. Jessie Garrow (who became his wife) said they had taught themselves how to make colour woodcuts and this image of a bridge shows Cheyne at an early stage in his career as one of the most distinguished of all British colour woodcuts artists.
Scottish bridge is in the collection of Minneapolis Museum of Art but this is not where I found the image.
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