Revelation to Revolution: The
Legacy of Samuel Palmer
The Revival and Evolution of Pastoral Printmaking by
Paul Drury and the Goldsmith's School in the 20th Century. By Jolyon Drury
This book describes the revival
of pastoral printmaking by the group of etchers who were students at Goldsmiths
College in the 1920s including Paul Drury, Graham Sutherland, William Larkins, Edward
Bouverie-Hoyton and Alexander Walker. It traces their influences, the evolution
of their technique and this group’s later development through the eyes of Paul
Drury. It is also a tale of the close and complicated relationship between Drury
and his father, the sculptor Alfred Drury RA, and of their artist friends and
colleagues representative of their age spanning a little over a century.
The
Goldsmiths group’s interest in Samuel Palmer coincided with the first important
exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 1926,
when these young artists were picked out for working in a similar but more contemporary style merging Palmer’s ideas
with the
approach of F.L. Griggs from fully two years before. This testimonial greatly assisted the
group to
early success, with their impressions much sought after in the American
market. This
account follows Paul Drury and the Goldsmiths group’s careers
through their early success, through the set-back of the Depression, through their
revival
in the 1930s, through the Second World War and through the
revolutionary 1960s. English printmaking flourished as result of this turbulent
period with Drury guiding the R. E. through major reforms to reunite the
generations and styles of printmaking into the cohesive body that it is
today.
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After Work,
etching, Paul Drury 1926
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To
find out more or to place an order for the book please email:
ronald.mcburnie@jcu.edu.au (in Australia)
jolyon.drury@btinternet.com (in the UK)
ronald.mcburnie@jcu.edu.au (in Australia)
jolyon.drury@btinternet.com (in the UK)
