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Gerald Leslie BrockhurstJames McBey1931
1931
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Fletcher 6 state .ix. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 (sheet 14 7/8 x 11 3/8). Edition 111. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Excellent condition. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1931; Print Collector's Quarterly 22 (1935): 70. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 10 1/2 x 16-inch Hogarth style frame.
After attending the Birmingham School of Art, Gerald L. Brockhurst entered the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he received the Gold Medal and Traveling Scholarship in 1913. The award allowed him to visit Paris and Italy, where he studied works by early Italian painters. Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci remained important influences.
From 1915 to 1919, Brockhurst lived in Ireland, where he met painter Augustus John, whose painting style was influenced by contemporary French art's simplicity of color and forms.
In 1917, he , was appointed and Official War Artist in 1917.
In 1919 Brockhurst returned to England for his first significant gallery exhibition.
During the 1920's Brockhurst became an etcher, focusing primarily on female portraits and using his wife as his model. Coolness, technical perfection, and overt classicism mark both his printmaking style and his painting manner.
In 1929 he visited America, returning with his new American wife.. They set up home in Morocco where apart from the War years in America, he lived till his death in 1959. An impression was exhibited at the RA, 1931, no.1323 Illustrated 'Royal Academy Illustrated' 1931.
- Creator:Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1890 - 1978, English)
- Creation Year:1931
- Dimensions:Height: 19.6 in (49.79 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Storrs, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU33524574631
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
(b Birmingham, 31 Oct. 1890; d Franklin Lakes, NJ, 4 May 1978). British-born painter and etcher who became an American citizen in 1949. Precociously gifted, an excellent draughtsman, and a fine craftsman, Brockhurst won several prizes at the Royal Academy Schools and went on to have a highly successful career as a society portraitist, first in Britain and then in the USA, where he settled in 1939, working in New York and New Jersey. He is best known for his portraits of glamorous women, painted in an eye-catching, dramatically lit, formally posed style similar to that later associated with Annigoni. As an etcher Brockhurst is remembered particularly for Adolescence (1932), a powerful study of a naked girl on the verge of womanhood staring broodingly into a mirror—one of the masterpieces of 20th-century printmaking.
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