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IMAGINATION
 A
Selection of Images
by, and in some instances, of
Printmakers
One tends to think of images as portraying reality,
whereas the word imaginary suggests something made
up and therefore not real.
This connundrum is resolved when a printmaker (or artist
in any medium) makes a work of art.
Initially
his or her imagination has to be sparked in some
way by the subject, then he/she has to conceive how
to create of it a convincing two-dimensional image.
In figurative art there is visual guidance from the
world around as to the potential nature and form that
the image might take. In abstract art the only restriction
is the artist’s imagination itself.
The
selection of prints in this catalogue partakes of
both figurative and abstract subjects. It includes
quite a number of abstracts, much more than is normally
the case. Some items combine both aspects.
Arranged
roughly in chronological sequence , the earlier part
of the catalogue contains portraits and figure studies,
including some notable portraits and self-portraits
of artists and printmakers, by or of Stanley Anderson,
Muirhead Bone, Marie Bracquemond, Charles Cundall,
Francis Dodd, Alphonse Legros, Bernard Pankok, Edward
John Poynter, Julius Schrader, James McNeil Whistler.
There are also two nice portraits of cats.
Among a number of landscapes there is a good group
by Seymour Haden.
The
catalogue continues with a wide range of etchings
by Hubert Andrew Freeth and concludes with an interesting
selection from Freeth’s collection,
mainly dedicated to him, by colleagues, students and
other associates at the St Martin’s School of
Art in London through the 1960’s and ‘70’s
through to the 1980’s.
Many
of these reflect the contemporary concerns with abstraction,
as with deep-bite aquatint and colour-printmaking.
Also
fascinating technically is a delightful ephemeral
oddity, a demonstration five-block colour print dated
1970, though earlier in appearance, of the Kelvinhaugh
Horse-drawn Tram Depot in Glasgow. All the stage proofs,
of each block independently and with cumulatively accruing
colours are included with the finished print.
Published
Winter 2012
48 pages, 107 items, with 116 illustrations, 30 being
in colour.
(UK
Price: £12, International orders £16)
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
- Ardizzone
E
- Austin
R
- Barker
A Raine
- Besnard
A
- Bone
M
- Bonforth
L
- Bordas
D
- Bracquemond
M
- Brangwyn
F
- Brown
G
- Burridge
F
- Camphausen
W
- Cheyne
I A J
- Clausen
G
- Copley
J
- Cotman
J S
- Cundall C
- Custerson C
- Dodd F
- Drury
P
- East
A
- Edwards
E
- Erasmus
- Figura
H
- Fountain
R
- Freeth
H A
- Gardner
W
- Goff
R
- Greaves
D
- Haden
F S
- Harris
L G
- Hashmi
Z
- Holloway
E
- Hopfer
H
- Jones
L
- Keene
C
- Kogan
D
- Komjáti
J
- Legros
A 9
- Leighton
C
- Martin
A
- Marx
E
- Masefield
J
- Massys
Q
- Montaigne
M
- Pankok
B
- Parsons
J R
- Perrier
F
- Plattenberg
M van
- Plattemontagne
M
- Poynter
J
- Quenel
D
- Raphael
- Reynolds
A
- Ross
P E
- Smith
E
- Sturges
D C
- Schrader
J
- Schmutzer
F
- Strang
W
- Wilson
B
- Zarina
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