Alice in Wonderland
Print
1970-1 (made)
1970-1 (made)
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| Place of origin |
At the end of the 1960s, disillusioned with London life, Peter Blake moved with his wife, artist Jann Haworth, and their daughter to Wellow, a small village near Bath. On the spring solistice of 1975, Blake and Haworth founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists with fellow artists Ann and Graham Arnold, David Inshaw and Annie and Graham Ovenden.
Blake said of the Ruralist mission:
Simply, our aims are the continuation of a certain kind of English painting; we admire Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Hardy, Elgar, cricket, English Landscape, the Pre-Raphaelites, etc… Our aims are to paint about love, beauty, joy, sentiment and magic. We still believe in painting with oil paint on canvas, putting the picture in the frame and hopefully, that someone will like it, buy it and hang it on their wall to enjoy it.
Blake’s Ruralist paintings are dominated by literary subjects drawn from English literature, particularly the works of William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Blake said of the Ruralist mission:
Simply, our aims are the continuation of a certain kind of English painting; we admire Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Hardy, Elgar, cricket, English Landscape, the Pre-Raphaelites, etc… Our aims are to paint about love, beauty, joy, sentiment and magic. We still believe in painting with oil paint on canvas, putting the picture in the frame and hopefully, that someone will like it, buy it and hang it on their wall to enjoy it.
Blake’s Ruralist paintings are dominated by literary subjects drawn from English literature, particularly the works of William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Object details
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| Title | Alice in Wonderland (series title) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprint on white paper |
| Brief description | Screenprint by Peter Blake from the series "Alice in Wonderland". Great Britain, 1970-1. |
| Physical description | Screenprint on white paper with crinkled edges, signed and numbered 3/100. Text is printed along the bottom of the image with excerpts from the original manuscript, featuring the Humpty Dumpty scene with Alice wearing a pale dress and reaching up to the figure seated on a wall. Toy-like houses and a skyline of tress make up the background. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Credit line | Acquired from Leslie Waddington Galleries Ltd, London in 1972 |
| Object history | This series of prints are from the suite made in 1970 illustrating 'Alice in Wonderland', reproducing watercolours made by the artist over about 2 years prior to printing. They were printed by Kelpra Studio, London, in an edition of 100. |
| Production | Printed in an edition of 100 |
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| Summary | At the end of the 1960s, disillusioned with London life, Peter Blake moved with his wife, artist Jann Haworth, and their daughter to Wellow, a small village near Bath. On the spring solistice of 1975, Blake and Haworth founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists with fellow artists Ann and Graham Arnold, David Inshaw and Annie and Graham Ovenden. Blake said of the Ruralist mission: Simply, our aims are the continuation of a certain kind of English painting; we admire Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Thomas Hardy, Elgar, cricket, English Landscape, the Pre-Raphaelites, etc… Our aims are to paint about love, beauty, joy, sentiment and magic. We still believe in painting with oil paint on canvas, putting the picture in the frame and hopefully, that someone will like it, buy it and hang it on their wall to enjoy it. Blake’s Ruralist paintings are dominated by literary subjects drawn from English literature, particularly the works of William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.9-1972 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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