Contemporary British prints and drawings selected from the Wakefield Collection of the British Council

PRINTS Very few prints are pulled in single examples; hardly any are, therefore, unique, and it is possible to have considerable liberty o f choice and even to take as one's standard of selection prints which W A T E R C O L O U R S A N D DRAWINGS have already been chosen for the principal public collections. The tradition o f graphic art in Great Britain is a very strong one, at least since the middle of the eighteenth century, when the great English masters of mezzotint had such a monopoly o f the AU S TIN, Robert Sargent, A.R.A., 1895 C O L Q U H O U N, Robert, 1914 process that the technique itself was known as la manière anglaise. 1. R E A D I N G O U T OF DOOR S . Chalk 15. C A R D PLAYERS. Monotype watercolour In the aquatint process Englishmen were genuine pioneers and exquisite work was produced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the great revival of original etching B IRKBE CK, Geoffrey, 1875 C O WERN , Raymond T., 1913 which took place towards the middle of the nineteenth century, although France took the lead, 2. S P R I NG FLOWERS. Watercolour 16. M I N S T E R STREET, WINCHESTER. England played an honourable and indeed essential part. Reproductive wood-engraving is Watercolour outside the scope o f the present exhibition but it is none the less true to say that the patient craft- BLAMPIED, Edmund, i886 manship of the 'Men o f the Sixties', no less than the spontaneous art o f Bewick and Blake is 3. T W O HORSES. Charcoal DARWIN, Robin, 1910 part of the foundation of modem wood engraving in England. 17. S U D E L E Y CASTLE. Watercolour In lithography Britain has only come forward in the present century. We have nothing in the BONE , Sir Muirhead, 1876 nineteenth century to compare with the work o f the great French masters. But in modem times, 4. OU T S K I R T S OF MARSEILLES. Chalk D 0 B S ON, Frank, 1887 especially in the work produced by those who have mastered in their entirety the technical 5. S A N GI M I G N A N 0 . Pencil 18. S T U D Y FOR A S CU L P T UR E . Pencil processes involved, Britain has placed herself in the forefront o f lithographic art. 19. WE T A F T E R N OO N . Watercolour There has been also a notable revival of line engraving, no longer as a mere handmaid to book- BRA B AZ ON , H. B., 1821-1906 illustration or reproductive work generally but in its own right as a craft o f great beauty and 6. CLA S S I CAL L AND S CA P E . DODD , Francis, R.A., 1874 power. Linocutting is a newcomer in the field of the creative arts, but it has already established Wash-drawing in ink 20. RUSSELL S QUAR E . Watercolour itself both for purposes o f instruction in schools and for its own particular qualities and effects. 7. S C E N E I N ITALY. Watercolour Particularly interesting in all these media are the many successful attempts to produce colour D 0 D G S O N , Catherine, 1883 prints. These now undoubtedly form one o f the most attractive features o f the present exhibition BR TEN, Stanislaus, 1895 2 1 . G A R D E N FIGURE, VE ITS H 0 C H STEIN. which will, it is hoped, stimulate interest in the various techniques represented and serve to show 8. TIGER. Chalk Sepia the high level which has been achieved by British artists throughout the entire field o f the FAIRCLO UGH, Wilfred, 1907 Graphic Arts. B U C K T O N , Eveleen J AME S LAVER 9 . TYINSHOLMEN. Watercolour 22. M O U N T A I N S N E A R INNSBRUCK. Pen and wash BURN , Rodney T., 1899 FREETH, Hubert A., 1912 10. ME L T I N G S N OW . Gouache 23. S. M. LITTEN, ESQ. Pen and ink CHE STON, Charles, 1882 F R Y , R o g e r , 1866-1934 11. D O R S E T L A N D S C A P E . Pen and wash 24. VERONA. Watercolour CLAUS EN , Sir George, R. A., 1 8 5 2 - 1 9 4 4 GILL, Eric, A.R.A., 1882-1940 12. I N T E R I OR OF A B ARN . Pencil and wash 25. S T U D Y OF A N U D E GIRL. Pencil 13. W O O D Y L AND S CA P E . Watercolour GROSS, Anthony, 1905 COLLINS, Cecil, 1908 26. THE PIER A T ST. LEONARDS. 14. VA S E OF FLOWERS. Pen and wash Pen and Wash 7