tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post3707163292878395480..comments2024-03-26T22:36:52.981+00:00Comments on Modern Printmakers: Edinburgh SchoolHaji babahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10619515066447546979noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-28620447157042654842015-10-23T07:18:43.255+01:002015-10-23T07:18:43.255+01:00Well, thanks for the additional if inconvenient in...Well, thanks for the additional if inconvenient information there, Clive! So, what we do know now is that there wer two editions of 'Owls', one unsigned... shame, really.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-64663998452596117162015-10-23T05:40:33.492+01:002015-10-23T05:40:33.492+01:00I agree with you about York Brunton and her prints...I agree with you about York Brunton and her prints but she was exhibiting them for sale as well just as Kirkpatrick did. Her owl print came up on British ebay about 18 months ago (and slipped through the net) and it was unsigned as I suspect they all were. It was definitely not meant for exhibition. <br /><br />Yes, contrived is the word for Royds and is specially true of the Indian period although at the time she also made some very natural-looking prints like 'Ducks' which I like a lot more. But she was never Seaby, no! Giles had an interesting phrase for her, that she knew her own mind (words to the that effect, anyway) and I think she must have realised she lacked spontaneity, hence the celebrated late prints. <br /><br />I have done some mugging up and am fairly sure the town in the background of the York Brunton is Rothenburg. The town is surrounded by vineyards and the pergola obviously has a vine. Thiemann also worked there between 1912 and 1918 at least and of course exhibited alongside EYB and Giles in London in the twenties. Giles must have known Hans Frank and Thiemann personally because they were invited to exhibit with the Graver Printers. There was also a visual conversation going on between the three of them before the war, or so it seems to me. But finding the evidence is the problem!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-6551180512310448202015-10-22T21:59:45.978+01:002015-10-22T21:59:45.978+01:00Thanks, Clive. And I think what you say about York...Thanks, Clive. And I think what you say about York Brunton's prints being given away as gifts must be right. <br /><br />I also agree about Royds being contrived. The Indian figures studies are the worst for this but she did make some wonderfully natural prints at that time (like her ducks) before she let loose on the flowers which of course everyone quite rightly loves. <br /><br />Having done some more mugging up since I posted this, I am fairly certain that the York Brunton print shows Rothenburg. There are vineyards around the town and Carl Thiemann who exhibited with EYB and Giles in London in the twenties also worked in Rothenburg between about 1912 to 1918. There is on obvious visual conversation taking place between Thiemann and Giles and Hans Frank with the bird prints before the war but it's finding the damned evidence!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com