Work of the week 61: Marianne Straub’s scrapbook
The Fry Art Gallery collection holds a scrapbook created by Marianne Straub. It was compiled between 1952 and 1984. The book includes many hand-made Christmas cards from Bardfield artists, contemporary designers and friends. From Bardfield, Edward Bawden, Sheila...
Work of the week 60: John Boyd Dunlop Fitting Tricycle Tyres by Edward Bawden RA
One of many linocut illustrations from Dunlopera: the works and workings of the Dunlop Rubber Company, by Paul Jennings, with drawings by Edward Bawden, R.A.,1961 Paul Jennings (1918-1989) was an English humourist who had a fortnightly column Oddly Enough, in The...
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
Now known as Southend, this amusing lithograph by Bernard Cheese was originally listed in Zwemmer’s catalogue as: What’s for Lunch – Cheese