TOWN
& COUNTRY
We all live either in the town or the country, and
naturally respond to these correspondingly all-embracing
themes, which lend themselves to a serendipitous selection,
such as is offered here.
Subjects drawn from either the urban or the rural environment
particularly appealed to the artists of the Etching
Revival and the Etching Boom years, whose images predominate
in this catalogue.
Picturesque urban street corners, shops, café life,
commercial activity, industry, construction, streets
thronged with pedestrians and horse-drawn carts, are
all represented here, as are topographical and architectural
views in London, Paris, St Petersburg, and Venice among
other towns. Venice above all has drawn artists, exemplified
here by a nice group by McBey, as well as individual
prints by Graham Clilverd, Albany Howarth, Sydney Lee,
Sydney Mackenzie Litten, Fred Richards, and Ernest
David Roth. The continuing tradition is witnessed in
the literally colourful etchings of the contemporary
Brian Denyer-Baker.
The majority of the prints of street views show little
if any motorised traffic, paralleling the rural subjects,
several of which particularly celebrate the working
horse.
Among the British artists associated with recording
the ‘disappearing’ pre-mechanised agricultural
scene of the between the Wars period, George Soper,
Ernest Herbert Whydale, Charles Tunnicliffe and Stanley
Anderson are all represented with fine prints of horses.
The interesting small group by Tunnicliffe also includes
less familiar images of his parents attending to cows
on their Cheshire farm. Cattle figure in quite a variety
of images by other artists as varied as Nicholaes Berchem,
Camille Pissarro and Claughton Pellew.
While Stanley Anderson’s engravings preserve
the memory of Oxfordshire and Buckingham craftsmen
and the tools they used, Charles Chaplin in his engraving
of the Fiddle Bow Seed Caster at a farm in Middlesex
details a large number of grasses and meadow flowers
as well as several cereals of which the seeds were
no longer used by the 1940’s.
In France in the early decades of the 20th century
a small group revived the long disused technique of
chiaroscuro woodcut, producing some powerful rural
images. The catalogue includes works in the medium
by Jacques Beltrand, Jacques le Chevalier and Paul
Emile Colin.
Though there are prints by the old master Claude Lorrain,
the French Barbizon painter Jean François Millet,
Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais,
this catalogue abounds with the work of lesser-known
artists, in some delightful and varied motifs.
These include a semi-abstract figure study in wood
engraving by the Hungarian/Jugoslav Zlatko Prica and
a woodcut of railway lines and signals by Polish Stefania
Dretler-Flin.
I
am also pleased to introduce in this catalogue the
airy landscapes of Reinder Homan, a contemporary Dutch
etcher.
Published
Summer 2012
64 pages, 181 illustrations, 26 being in colour.
(UK
Price: £15, International orders: £20)
Prints
still available
Prints from this catalogue are still
available and in due course will be featured within the Selections section
of the website.
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Artists
included in the catalogue:
- Anderson
S
- Austen
W
- Austin R
- Barry J
- Bauer M
- Becker H
- Beltrand J
- Berchem N
- Bingham T
- Blaker M
- Blieck M E
- Bonington R P
- Both J
- Boulton D
- Brangwyn F
- British School
- Brouet A
- Buckton E
- Burra E J
- Burke P
- Cameron D Y
- Chaplin C
- Chevalier J le
- Clarke J
- Clarke R L
- Claude
- Clausen G
- Clilverd G
- Colin P E
- Cootwycz J
- Crome J
- Dalby C
- Denyer-Baker B
- Dretler-Flin S
- Droege O
- Fairclough W
- Frélaut
J
- Frisius S
- Gascoyne G
- Hecht J
- Harris L G
- Heyman C
- Hirst N
- Hollar W
- Holmes K
- Homan R
- Howard G
- Howarth A
- Keesey W M
- Kirkpatrick J
- Laboureur J E
- Langmaid R
- Le Chevalier J
- Lee S
- Lee-Hankey W
- Leighton C
- Leslie R
- Litten S M
- Lorrain C
- Lowe A
- Malet G
- McBey J
- Millais J E
- Millet J F
- Moeri M
- Myall D
- Neumann H
- Orovida
- Paterson E L
- Pellew C
- Pissarro C
- Pissarro O
- Poole M
- Pott C
- Potter P
- Power C
- Prica Z
- Raverat G
- Rayner H
- Rice B
- Richards F
- Robertson P
- Robins W P
- Rose G H
- Rosenberg L C
- Roth E D
- Rowntree K
- Russian School
- Sadeler A
- Short F
- Smart D I
- Smith E
- Soper G
- Stone R
- Stretti V
- Thomas P
- Tilleard R
- Toovey R
- Tunnicliffe C F
- Unwin F S
- Ury L
- Wade N
- Walcot W
- Watson C
- Webb J
- Wesselman F
- Whistler J McN
- White B
- White E
- Whydale E H
- Wilson S R
- Wobst F
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