Title

Claude Flight and his followers: The colour linocut movement between the Wars.

Venues

Australian National Gallery (18 April 1992 – 12 July 1992)

Art Gallery Of New South Wales. (14 October 1992 – 29 November 1992)

National Gallery Of Victoria [1]. (16 December 1992 – 1 March 1993)

Museum of New Zealand (19 March 1993 – 16 May 1993)

Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki (3 June 1993 – 18 July 1993)

Date

(1992 – 1993)

Summary

Multi-artist travelling exhibition. Located: Australia. Prints.

Curator

Coppel, Stephen.

Web address

https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/claude-flight-and-…

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

The English artist and teacher Claude Flight was the champion of the linocut movement in Britain between the two world wars. An original and inspiring teacher, Flight attracted many promising students from England and abroad to his linocut classes at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London.

Although Flight only taught at the Grosvenor School for four years, from 1926 to 1930, his technical methods, as well as his style, were taken up by many of his followers during the 1930s. Among the most gifted of his students were the English artists Cyril E. Power and Sybil Andrews, while the Swiss artist Lill Tschudi was one of his most widely exhibited foreign pupils in London.

A number of Flight's students came from Australia. They included Dorrit Black, Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme, all of whom soon demonstrated a mastery of the medium. The New Zealand artist Frank Weitzel also won Flight's admiration at the Grosvenor School, while Eileen Mayo, another English pupil, eventually made her home in New Zealand.

Flight and his followers ardently promoted the linocut as the modern medium for the modern age. As a twentieth-century print technique, the linocut seemed particularly appropriate to expressing the speed and dynamism of modern life.

Stephen Coppel, 1992.

[Australian National Gallery media, 1992].

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01 Nov 2024