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Concert Hall

Print
1929 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sybil Andrews became one of the best-known of a group of artists connected with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, London, who specialised in making linocuts. She printed this image from four separate linoleum blocks, inking them individually in yellow ochre, light blue, dark blue and black.

With any print that requires multiple blocks the artist has to be very careful that the blocks are well registered (lined up correctly with each other) or the print will be ruined.

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Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Concert Hall (assigned by artist)
  • Au Theatre (alternative title)
Materials and techniques
Colour linocut on paper
Brief description
Colour linocut print by Sybil Andrews, 'Au Theatre', alternatively titled 'Concert Hall'. Britain, 1929.
Physical description
Colour linocut
Dimensions
  • Image height: 238mm
  • Image width: 288mm
  • Sheet height: 270mm
  • Sheet width: 315mm
Marks and inscriptions
'Sybil Andrews 12/50' (Signed and numbered in pencil, top left corner of print.)
Credit line
Courtesy of Glenbow Museum Art Gallery Library Archives
Subjects depicted
Summary
Sybil Andrews became one of the best-known of a group of artists connected with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, London, who specialised in making linocuts. She printed this image from four separate linoleum blocks, inking them individually in yellow ochre, light blue, dark blue and black.

With any print that requires multiple blocks the artist has to be very careful that the blocks are well registered (lined up correctly with each other) or the print will be ruined.
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1929
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.185-1929

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Record createdDecember 3, 2002
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