Leon Underwood Leon George Claude Underwood (1890-1975) worked in several media – as linocutter, painter, etcher, wood-engraver and sculptor; he also taught and wrote extensively on the philosophy and theory of art. It is both interesting and well presented and it introduced me to an artist I had never known about so I thank him for opening another window on the world of a ninety-year-old always ready for new experiences !

You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly.This new book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the artist's work in all media - watercolour, illustration, printmaking, graphic design, textiles and ceramics - and firmly positions Ravilious as a major figure in the history of early 20th-century British art. Tonk’s teaching bred a formidable tenacity in his students, and a diversity of approach which was apparent throughout Shephard’s career.

But whilst firmly within this tradition, these artists were also modernisers, especially in the adoption of new subject matter. In his work, Tucker eschewed avant-garde experimentation and, like many of the inter-war artists – Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Winifred Knights, Harold Williamson, and James Cowie amongst them – he preferred to stay with realism. Directly after school she noticed an advertisement in The Studio inviting applications for a training programme specialising in linocuts at The Grosvenor School of Art, London.As Marian Barbour commented, “While Shephard’s early work was bleakly linear, in the late 1930s and 1940s this gave way to the more painterly style, cool and tonal in the Euston Road tradition that derived from Sickert. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual. He was sent to Macedonia where he spent two years on the front line, facing German and Bulgarian troops, before being invalided out after experiencing bouts of malaria.

Born in 1890, her family also had business interests in newspaper publishing, and she grew up in the family mansion Toorak House where, subsequent to her training in art, she would set up her studio. Trevelyan was a teacher of etching at the Royal College of Art where his students included David Hockney, Norman Ackroyd and Ron Kitaj.Bawden and Ravilious met in the design school of the Royal College of Art in 1922, members of a generation of students described by Paul Nash, one of their tutors as belonging to 'an outbreak of talent'. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which pieces of manila paper have been inserted to mask the stark white of the backing paper so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf. There is evidence, almost always, of the land having been traversed and used: the paths are well trodden, the fences zigzag their way across the terrain and pieces of machinery lie rusting in the fields. Although the book was not a limited edition, the destruction of the lithographic plates during the Blitz meant that only 2000 copies were ever printed. Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy.