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Work of the week 59: Bust of Lewis Fry

Visitors entering the Fry Gallery will find in the lobby a Victorian bust of the Rt. Hon, Lewis Fry, MP for Bristol executed in 1882 by James Havard Thomas, and perhaps wonder why he is there in “a shrine to my favourite Essex artists” (to quote Grayson Perry). The...

Work of the week 58: Southend by Bernard Cheese

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Now known as Southend, this amusing lithograph by Bernard Cheese was originally listed in Zwemmer’s catalogue as: What’s for Lunch – Cheese

Work of the week 57: Tottenham Hale by Edward Bawden

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This is the design for platform murals at Tottenham Hale station on the Victoria Line on the London Underground system which opened in 1968. Thousands pass it every day without knowing it is the work of Edward Bawden. During the Covid-19 pandemic we used it to remind...

Work of the week 56: Mr Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson by Edward Bawden

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1984, Linocut After Edward Bawden had completed late in 1981 sixty-eight illustrations for the three-volume Folio Society edition of Mallory’s Morte d’Arthur, he was reluctant to undertake more book illustrations. However by 1984, he agreed to provide six...

Work of the week 59: Bust of Lewis Fry

Work of the week 58: Southend by Bernard Cheese

Work of the week 57: Tottenham Hale by Edward Bawden

Work of the week 56: Mr Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson by Edward Bawden

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