The
Feminine Touch
A Selection of Prints currently
in stock by Women Artists
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links: Prints
by Women Artists 01 and Prints
by Women Artists 02, will
allow you to view the featured prints from
the
two previous series of Prints by Women Artists
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THERESE HOLBEIN VON HOLBEINSBERG
Graz, Austria 1785 – 1859 Vienna
The
daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Philip Holbein
von Holbeinsberg, the last of the line, settled
in Vienna about 1814, as a painter and etcher.
She
never married and lived in seclusion, though
she did publish a couple of sets of etchings;
Six Views of the environs of the Castle of
Limburg on the River Lahn, c1813 and thirty
Landscapes after Nature and after different
masters, c1814.
This
little scene of a waterfall is probably from
the latter series, though other examples
from the series are landscape rather than
portrait in format.
Wooded
Landscape
110 x 83 mm
Original etching, c1814.
On wove, trimmed in the margins.
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Mrs MARY NIMMO MORAN
R.E.
Strathaven, Scotland 1842 – 1899 East Hampton, New York
After
the death of his wife, Mary’s father took the Nimmo family to America in 1847 and they settled in Crescentville, Philadelphia. Their neighbours were English immigrants, the Morans, who had two sons who grew up to be artists. In
1862 Mary married Thomas Moran, five years
her senior and became his pupil and assistant.
The Civil War ended, in 1866 -1868 they made
a tour of European cities, passing some months
in London.
After
their return home they moved to New Jersey,
where in 1878 they acquired a press and Thomas
taught Mary to etch.
Mary
had immediate success in the medium. She
was elected to the Society of New York Etchers,
the only woman member, and invited to exhibit
in London at the founding exhibition of the
R.E., resulting in her election as a Fellow
of the Society.
Ruskin
admired her work and bought three of her
etchings in 1882.
After
spending several summers in East Hampton
the Morans settled there in 1882, buying
land and building a house and studio in a
sheep pasture overlooking Goose Pond. Many
of Mary Nimmo Moran’s etchings, like this example, showed the landscape of the area.
Goose
Pond
151 x 103 mm
Original etching, c1882.
The plate initialled MNM.
Printed in brown ink, with plate tone, on laid
paper. Wide margins, defects at the sheet
edges.
£85
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SYLVIA
GOSSE
R.E.
London 1881 – 1968 Hastings
The
daughter of the poet and critic Edmund Gosse,
and a friend and colleague of Sickert, in
whose art school she taught from 1909 to
1914, Sylvia Gosse was a founder Member of
the London Group in 1913.
Le
Port de Tréguier (Brittany)
139 x 222 mm
Original etching, c1920.
The plate signed.
Signed in pencil.
On French cream laid paper. Trace of a fold line in the sky.
£150
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ENID
BUTCHER
London 1902 – 1991
Trained
first at the Chelsea School of Art, Enid
Butcher then attended The Royal College of
Art. She graduated in 1927. Her tutor, Robert
Austin, had introduced her to engraving as
a technique and also introduced her to his
own publisher, the XXI Gallery in London,
who published Enid Butcher’s plates from 1929 to 1933, after which she seems to disappear as an artistic presence.
The
Knife-Grinder
125 x 137 mm
Original engraving, c1929.
The plate initialled.
Signed in pencil and numbered 25/40.
On cream wove.
£300
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DORA NEUMOND ?
(née Kahn ?)
A
German woodcut artist working in the 1930’s through to the 1950’s.
The subjects of her later woodcuts suggest travel or emigration to Greece and Israel.
Lesender  Reader
159 x 142 mm
Original woodcut, 1937.
Signed in pencil, dated
and entitled.
Printed on tissue-thin japan.
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MARY
FAIRCLOUGH
Born Keynsham, near Bristol 1913 - 2000 Keynsham
Mary
Fairclough studied at home, 1926-30, with
another Bristol woman painter and linocut
maker, Miss Kit Gunton, through whom her
work was shown to Claude Flight who invited
her to exhibit at the ‘Grosvenor School linocut’ exhibitions at the Ward Gallery in London and Brighton through the 1930’s.
During
this period she also attended the West of
England College of Art in Bristol part time
until the start of the Second World War when
she served with the Women’s Voluntary Service.
An
illustrator, painter, printmaker, potter
and writer, Mary Fairclough even composed
the lyrics and designed the costumes of a
ballad-opera in the 1960’s. She never married,
and died in 2000.
Nude
posing
Nude posing
270 x 230 mm
Original three-colour linocut, c1935.
Signed in pencil with initials.
On thin japan, a little cockled.
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