Work of the Week 37: House on Rocks by George Chapman
aquatint/etching, 1951 George Chapman was famous for documenting the industrial life of South Wales and House on Rocks is no exception. The mill wheel and chimney are placed next to a small house, with hills or even slag heaps in the distance. The technique is of...
Work of the Week 36: Turkey & Farm Machine III by Michael Rothenstein
linocut, 1959 (No. 31) Artist, illustrator and printmaker, Chloë Cheese, selected this work for the Random Spectacular exhibition in 2020: ‘This linocut is drawn with great freedom but vividly evokes the Essex farmyards of my childhood. When we lived in...
Work of the Week 35: Model of a Chapel by Tirzah Garwood
mixed media The Fry’s collection includes a number of three dimensional works and this small model dates from around 1946. Eileen Lucy “Tirzah” Garwood was married to Eric Ravilious from 1930 until his death in 1942. Her daughter, the writer Anne...
Work of the Week 34: Study of a Ballet Dancer by Isabel Rawsthorne
chalk, ink and gouache c. 1960 Just as Degas had studied the ballet dancers from the wings and in the classrooms of the Palais Garnier in Paris in the nineteenth century, Isabel Rawsthorne depicted performers from the Royal Ballet in London. Between around 1952 to...