Colour linocuts by Anne Henderson

 

The only reason we have Anne Henderson's work on Modern Printmakers today is because Dominic Winter have one of her rare colour linocuts for sale later this month (above). I am not convinced either of the titles given are hers so I won't repeat them.  I think both are on tissue and artists tended to avoid inscribing their work on that type of  paper. The edition number is 1/20. Take from that what you will.

Very little is known about the artist and to be honest I have done no research of my own. She was from Trinidad and Tobago and came to London at the age of seventeen in 1927. There is the usual hopeful conjecture about her training at the Grosvenor School and although Claude Flight would have been taking his weekly class there when she arrived, neither of these prints have the conventional Grosvenor School dynamism.

She died in 1981 not long after the revival of interest in pre-war colour prints began.