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Grosvenor School Of Modern Art
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was a private British art school and, in its shortened form ("Grosvenor School"), the name of a brief British-Australian art movement. It was founded in 1925 by the Scottish wood engraver Iain Macnab in his house at 33 Warwick Square in Pimlico, London. From 1925 to 1930 Claude Flight ran it with him, and also taught linocutting there; among his students were Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power, Lill Tschudi and William Greengrass. The school The school had no formal curriculum and students studied what and when they wished. There were day and evening courses: life classes, classes in composition and design, and classes on the history of Modern Art. Frank Rutter taught a course entitled "From Cézanne to Picasso". Macnab's wife, the dancer Helen Wingrave, gave a dance course. Though there was no formal curriculum, all students attended Claude Flight's linocut classes. The Grosvenor School closed in 1940, merging with the Heatherley School of Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Macnab
Iain Macnab of Barachastlain (21 October 1890 – 24 December 1967) was a Scottish wood-engraver and painter. As a prominent teacher he was influential in the development of the British school of wood-engraving. His pictures are noted for clarity of form and composition. His concepts of the sense of motion which could be created by the shape of repetitive parallel lines were of profound influence, in particular in relation to the art of linocut – an art form which both he and Claude Flight pioneered at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art where with the teachers included Cyril Power and Sybil Andrews. His work was shown in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 1930. Early life Iain Macnab was born in Iloilo in the Philippines on 21 October 1890 to Scottish parents, the son of John Macnab of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The family moved to Scotland when he was young. Macnab served in France in the First World War as a captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, south London. It opened to the public in 1817 and was designed by the Regency architect Sir John Soane. His design was recognized for its innovative and influential method of illumination for viewing the art. It is the oldest public art gallery in England and was made an independent charitable trust in 1994. Until then, the gallery was part of the College of God's Gift, a charitable foundation established by the actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Edward Alleyn in the early 17th century. The acquisition of artworks by its founders and bequests from its many patrons resulted in Dulwich Picture Gallery housing one of the country's finest collections of Old Masters, especially rich in French, Italian and Spanish Baroque paintings, and in British portraits from the Tudor era to the 19th century. The Dulwich Picture Gallery and its mausoleum are listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. The mausoleum is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Stewart (artist)
Helen Stewart (27 March 1900 – 31 March 1983) was a New Zealand artist. Her work is held by collections in Australia and New Zealand, including at the Victoria University of Wellington, Dowse Art Museum, and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Education Stewart began studying under Linley Richardson at the Technical School in Wellington in 1921. In 1927 she had her first show and soon after left for London, where she entered the School of Art. The next year she lived in Paris and attended the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, though she said in 1982 they were both were studios where you "joined by the week". She moved to Sydney in 1930 to join her family who had moved from Wellington to live there, entering the Sydney Art School (also known as the Julian Ashton Art School). She said that she felt her real training started with Thea Proctor becoming an associate and also a teacher with her. In 1931 she entered the Grosvenor School unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfine Mary Ryland
Adolfine Mary Ryland (14 March 1903 – 1983) was a British artist who worked as a sculptor, painter and printmaker. Across several different media her work often displayed innovative elements of design and also showed her interest in Indian and Eastern forms of sculpture. Biography Ryland was born in Windsor, where her father was a solicitor and where she would settle later in life. She studied at the Heatherley School of Fine Art from 1920 to 1925 and then at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art where she was taught linocut and woodcut techniques by Iain Macnab and Claude Flight Walter Claude Flight (born London 16 February 1881 - died Donhead St Andrew 10 October 1955) also known as Claude Flight or W. Claude Flight was a British artist who pioneered and popularised the linocut technique in printmaking. He also painte .... In 1927 she began exhibiting with the Women's International Art Club, WIAC, which became her main exhibition venue throughout her career. In 1936 Ryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Reckitt
Rachel Reckitt (1908–1995) was a British artist, who in a long career worked as a wood engraver, as a sculptor and as a designer of wrought iron work. Her output included book illustrations, tombstones, church sculptures and pub signs. Biography Reckitt was born and lived in St Albans in Hertfordshire until 1922 when her family moved to Old Cleeve in Somerset to live in a large country house known as Golsoncott. After a spell at the Taunton School of Art, Reckitt studied wood engraving at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London from 1933 to 1937, where she was taught by Iain Macnab. During this period she began exhibiting stone and wood carvings with the London Group and also prints with the Society of Wood Engravers. In 1937 she began making sculptured inn signs using metal sheeting and other materials for pubs in Somerset. During World War II Reckitt undertook relief work in the Whitechapel area of London and also assisted with the evacuation of children from the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwenda Morgan
Gwenda Morgan (1 February 1908 – 9 January 1991) was a British wood engraver. She lived in the town of Petworth in West Sussex. Early life Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers, Austen & Co, of which he later became proprietor. He was the son of a Welsh-born military farrier. Education Following school in Petworth and at Brighton and Hove High School, Morgan, studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London from 1926. From 1930 she attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in Pimlico where she was taught and strongly influenced by the principal, Iain Macnab.Christopher Sandford, 'Gwenda Morgan: an Engraver of the Countryside.' Studio International, 1950. Volume 140. Page 16. The Grosvenor School was a progressive art school and the championing of wood engraving and linocuts fitted with its democratic approach to the arts.Jeanne Cannizzo, ''A Study in Contrast: Sybil Andrews and Gwenda Morgan''. Art Gallery of Greater Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison McKenzie
Alison McKenzie (30 August 1907 – 5 August 1982) was a British artist who was both a painter and printmaker.Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Peter J. M. McEwan. Antique Collectors Club. 1994. Biography McKenzie was born in Bombay to Scottish parents and was educated in England at the Prior's Field School from 1921 to 1925. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art for four years, during which time she won the Fra Newbery medal, before moving to London in 1929 to learn wood engraving at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under Iain Macnab. McKenzie undertook several commercial commissions, including producing poster designs for the London and North Eastern Railway. In 1937 McKenzie illustrated an edition of John Milton's ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'' for the Gregynog Press. McKenzie's sister, Winifred, was also an artist and during World War II they moved to St Andrews in Scotland. At St Andrews, along with Annabel Kidston, they organised drawing and engr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Seymour Warre Malet
Guy Seymour Warre Malet (1900–1973) was an English landscape and figure engraver, printmaker, watercolourist and oil painter. He spent a large portion of his life on the island of Sark and many of his images are of the Channel Islands. He was educated at Downside School, Somerset, from 1911 to 1917. Malet studied at the London and New Art School under Eastman and John Hassall, and at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art under Iain MacNab. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of Wood Engravers and the New English Art Club. Malet lived in London, Seaford in Sussex and finally in Ditchling. His painting of Dunfermline is in the collection of the National Railway Museum in York. , BBC - Your Paintings. Retrieved 2014-01-02. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elizabeth Groom
Mary Elizabeth Groom (17 December 1903 – 21 December 1958) was a British artist, notable for her work as a printmaker and for the books she illustrated in the 1930s for the Golden Cockerel Press. Biography Groom was born at Corringham in Essex to a master mariner and his wife. She studied under the influential printmaker Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art before, in 1921, enrolling at Leon Underwood's Brook Green School to develop her skills as an engraver. Groom's prints featured areas of black outlined in white but with great attention to detail. In 1937, she produced two books for the Golden Cockerel Press, an edition of ''Paradise Lost'' by Milton and ''Roses of Sharon'', a collection of Old Testament verses. Groom was a member of the Society of Wood Engravers, exhibiting some 18 prints with them, and also of a breakaway group, the English Wood Engraving Society. For many years, she lived at Southwold before moving to Wenhaston in Suffolk, which was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Findlay
Anna R. Findlay (1885 – 1968) was a British artist and printmaker. She was known for her elegant colour linocut and woodcut prints of mostly outdoor scenes. Early life and education Findlay was born in Glasgow, the daughter of Joseph Findlay and Jessie Brown Marshall Findlay. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1914. She studied under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and, for a period, her work was influenced by the style of the Futurists. Career Findlay lived in Cornwall, where she exhibited with, and was a member of, the St Ives Society of Artists. "The oils of Anna R. Findlay have a distinctly modern note, and will be much appreciated by all who are inclined to encourage those who are straying from the orthodox in art and literature", commented critic "Penwithian" of her paintings in a 1936 show at Porthmeor. By 1938, Findlay had returned to Scotland. She was also a member of, and exhibited with, the Glasgow Society of Artist Printer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Drew
Pamela Drew (11 September 1910 – 11 June 1989) was a British artist known for her paintings of marine and aviation subjects. Although Drew was born in the north of England she spent considerable periods of her career in Ireland. Biography Drew was born in Burnley and was the eldest daughter of John M. Drew, a well-known calico painter. At an early age Pamela Drew took art classes at Christchurch in Hampshire before studying at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London, where her younger sister Diana Drew also studied. In 1928, Pamela went to Paris to study under Roger Chastel. She exhibited in 1936 with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. The same year she designed a poster for Shell as part of their ''Visit Britain'' campaign. The following year Drew married the fourth Baron Rathdonnell and took up residence at Lisnavagh House at Rathvilly in County Carlow. During the Second World War, Drew served in the Women's Royal Naval Service, being stationed in Rosyth, Plymouth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Cooper
Suzanne Cooper (1916-1992) was a British Modernist painter and wood-engraver. Her 1936 oil painting "Royal Albion," at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland Art Gallery (NZ), is noted for the "artist's use of simplified blocks of form and colour." She grew up in Frinton-on-Sea and studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. Between 1935 and 1939, she exhibited her oil-paintings and wood-engravings at the The Redfern Gallery, Redfern Gallery, the Zwemmer Gallery, the Wertheim Gallery and the Stafford Gallery, and with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Print-Makers and the Society of Women Artists. The influential collector Lucy Wertheim, in addition to exhibiting her work, bought two of Cooper's oil paintings. Exhibitions * "Suzanne Cooper: The Rediscovery of a Forgotten Artist," 17–25 March 2018, The Fry Art Gallery Too, Saffron Walden (solo exhibition) * "Suzanne Cooper and the art of wood engraving," 2 June - 1 July 2018, Printroom S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
