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George
Tute R.E.,
S.W.E.
Born Hull 1933
Bather
in a Landscape
Bristol Retrospective 48
102 x 152 mm
Wood
engraving, c1979. An artist’s proof, signed
in pencil and entitled. Printed on coated white
wove.
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Additional
Information about the Print
The
single pastoral wood engraving in this exhibition,
Tute’s landscape recalls that it was Blake’s
small wood engraved illustrations to Virgil’s Eclogues that
had so moved and inspired Palmer and his fellow
Ancients in the Shoreham period.
In
Tute’s Landscape with Bather,
the bucolic theme, the rounded forms of the landscape
and sheep, and the proliferation of details of
specific plants and seed heads, grasses as well
as his ‘signature’ dandelion puffballs,
speak directly of his admiration for Palmer and
Calvert.
Tute
has commented on his work’s “neo-romantic
flavour with an emphasis on design and drawing”. “Such
an approach might be seen as akin to poetry's
place in the universe of literature.”
The
introductory text to the Samuel
Palmer Legacy exhibition includes further
information about George
Tute.
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