tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post7893146474565257252..comments2024-03-26T22:36:52.981+00:00Comments on Modern Printmakers: Patience Galloway's colour woodcutsHaji babahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10619515066447546979noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-72128347206901047392012-07-05T19:23:51.511+01:002012-07-05T19:23:51.511+01:00Since I posted, the print has arrived, and it was ...Since I posted, the print has arrived, and it was obviously a colour woodcut. Apart from that, I found it exhibited as 'In the Solent' in 1937. That must be the one I've bought. Felicity also sent me another image of The Old Waggon where the green has faded to grey but you can see the waggon is well-rendered. The image I have here doesn't do that print justice. But then, old carts and all are not your thing.<br /><br />It may be that the war interrupted her career but I now have a list of about five prints, which is a fair start. The fact that she doesn't use a keyblock makes them simpler to print but I agree about the waves all the same. The rigging is also astonishingly fine and most of it has registered. Note that she also uses Robert Gibbings 'vanishing line' where the sails rise above the horizon.<br /><br />I feeling a bit numbed right now as I've just had a nasty extraction but I'll spare you the details.Haji babahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10619515066447546979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-78187265615558610232012-07-05T04:08:36.647+01:002012-07-05T04:08:36.647+01:00I keep coming back to the sail boat and find mysel...I keep coming back to the sail boat and find myself looking at my computer screen. It must have been a tremendous amount of work to create a single image. The waves themselves are a symphony of line and colour, and exquisitely rendered. <br /><br />Clearly done with a painters eye. <br /><br />I would stunned if they were in fact linocuts, the precision in that image is just too crisp to be done by linocut. However on that matter, I immediately think of Mavrogordato who did a couple of sailing prints. One, not very appealing to me and a little muddy and cross hatched to death and then another in the permanent collection of the SF Museum of Fine Arts which is a stunning jazz age print using waves of colour much like Galloway's print, but not nearly as refined. <br /><br />I am assuming Galloway either didn't have much output, or judging by the two images here, her works were not always consistent. Then of course there is the other reason....during the time there were not many women who were treated with the same respect or elevation of the male artists who created works that were often inferior to those of the women. One thing that is interesting is that women who often succeeded in the art world used to do illustrations for magazines, like Lill Tschudi did. It wasn't a hobby, it was her bread and butter. <br /><br />Anyway, an interesting and forgotten artist.<br /><br />CliveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-11726366685564639652012-06-25T21:30:34.752+01:002012-06-25T21:30:34.752+01:00I agree about discoveries, especially when you get...I agree about discoveries, especially when you get there before the market does. Some artists in the twenties used manuals and they helped one another. There must have been alot of informal learning.<br /><br />She reminds me of Eric Slater. I like the way she connects the haystacks in the background to the wagon.Haji babahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10619515066447546979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2195425069670824214.post-75674214947760787772012-06-25T21:01:29.583+01:002012-06-25T21:01:29.583+01:00Well well, discoveries are nice. A totally new nam...Well well, discoveries are nice. A totally new name to remember. Curious to know who taught here. The Wagon has a Soper/Frank/Verpilleux feel to it. I agree with your sentiments about pay-price-art picture sites. Shameles scavengers they are, former city bankers and brokers probably.Gerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01985746967465520617noreply@blogger.com