Modern Printmakers
Saturday, 7 November 2020
Portrait of Miss Jessie Garrow
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I cannot be sure that the colour woodcut above is a self-portrait by the Glasgow artist, Jessie Garrow, but I tend to think that it is. Even...
Sunday, 4 October 2020
A tale of two bridges
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In 1915, the writer Walter Sparrow Shaw published 'A book of bridges' with illustrations in black-and-white and colour by Frank Br...
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Thursday, 24 September 2020
Romney Marsh Weavers
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About 1920, Kathleen Rigden Read moved from Twickenham in London to a house called in North St, Winchelsea, in East Sussex. Once there, sh...
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Sunday, 13 September 2020
Edna Boies Hopkins: the Derbyshire connection
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Back in 1908, the educationalist Samuel Clegg published a monograph about the American colour woodcut artist, Edna Boies Hopkins. This inclu...
Monday, 19 March 2018
Haydn Mackey's 'Jacke of Newberie'
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Every once in a while an artist who isn't all that talented manages to excel himself. Exactly how they do this isn't always ob...
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Tuesday, 24 October 2017
The woodcut technique of James Alphege Brewer
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In the last post I wondered about the technique that James Alpheg...
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Saturday, 21 October 2017
The colour woodcuts of James Alphege Brewer
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No-one could blame James Alphege Brewer for the war. It was bad luck that he began to make these colour woodcuts only a year or so befo...
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