Tag : Modern Printmakers
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The black bull: the print catalogue of S.G. Boxsius
The only way a collector of prints made by an individual artist can really know what they are doing is to have a catalogue if their work. Even now,
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Ian Cheyne, S.G. Boxsius & John Hall Thorpe at Mallam's
I owe a debt to the two readers who wrote to tell me about the forthcoming sale of modern prints at Mallam's in Oxford on Wednesday, 8th December.
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Robert Howey, north & south
Of all the British artists I have written about, Robert Howey is about the only one I can think of who kept a base at his home in the northern town
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The colour linocuts of Norbertine von Bresslern Roth
Over the years, the linocuts of Norbertine von Bresslern Roth have received scant attention on Modern Printmakers. There are various reasons for
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Hilary Chapman's 'John Edgar Platt, master of the colour woodcut' for sale.
In 2018, Hilary Chapman bought out John Edgar Platt, master of the colour woodcut as an updated version of a book about Platt's colour woodcuts she
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Yoshijiro Urushibara visits Kew Gardens
Quite a few years ago, someone had a blog where they identified at least some of the vases Yoshijiro Urushibara made use of in his flower prints. It
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Elizabeth Colwell: Reading, Cornwall & Chicago
Never a good idea, but I had always believed for no special reason that Frank Morley Fletcher's Woodblock printing published in Britain in 1916
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The colour woodcuts of Concord & Cavendish Morton
The colour woodcuts made together by the twin brothers, Concord and Cavendish Morton, in the early 1930s account for only a small part of their
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A colour woodcut of the Thames by Leslie Moffat Ward
If nothing else this fetching colour print by Leslie Moffat Ward is further proof of what I said about him in the last post. The reader who sent
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The colour linocuts of Leslie Moffat Ward
I was reminded of Leslie Moffat Ward's colour linocuts when a reader told me he had bought one. There are six that I know of and like all of Ward's
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'S. G. Boxsius from the Roof' : a prospectus for a new book & two new images
As artists of lesser standing and with less appeal than S.G. Boxsius have had small books published about them in recent years, I thought it was