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Sybil Andrews"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print1930
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"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print
"The Winch" 1930. 7 3/4 x 11 (sight) inches. Linocut in colors on tissue-thin Japan paper. Numbered 15/50 and signed upper left. there were also 6 trial proofs and 5 experimental proofs. Label verso - La Chiocciola Gallery, Italy. Frame by Bark. Notes: Coppel SA6.
BIO
Sybil Andrews was a printmaker, painter, graphic artist and educator who was born in Bury St. Edmonds, Suffolk, England. She moved to London (England) in 1922. In 1947, she emigrated to Campbell River (Vancouver Island) British Columbia, Canada, where she worked, taught and lived for the rest of her life. She died at a hospital in Victoria (B.C.)
Her mediums were the colour linocut (1) (most famous), etching, posters, pastels, ink, watercolour, monoprint and oil. Her subjects were human activity (at work, sports, travel, etc.), figures, animals, genre, allegory, architecture and landscape. Her style was Art Deco (see AskART styles), Futurism, Cubism and Vorticism (2). Her work is identified by a simple format, clean lines, distortion, vivid colours, drama and rhythm.
Quote: "The colour linocut was just the medium for me, being interested in dynamics and ideas and patterns... It is impossible to be fussy with lines, you have to simplify, you are forced to simplify your idea to its fundamentals." Andrews produced 76 linocuts in her life, of which 43 were made from 1929 to 1939, which is considered to be her best period.
John Hassall's art correspondence course (1918) was the beginning of her formal art education. She went from there to Heatherley's School of Fine Art (London/1922) where she studied under Henry Massey (see AskART) and met artistic partner Cyril Power (see AskART). At the same time, she studied independently with sculptor Henri Glicenstein (see AskART) who taught her drypoint etching and to draw from life.
She also attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1925). Iain McNab (1890-1967) was Principal and Claude Flight (3) (see AskART) an instructor who had a great influence on her choice of linocut as a primary medium. Some of his other students and her associates were Edith Lawrence (1890-1973), Lill Tschudi (1911-2001), Eileen Mayo (see AskART) and William Greengrass (1896-1970). After emigrating to Canada she taught art continuously until a month before her death.
She was elected a member of the Canadian Painters - Etchers Society (after 1976 the Print and Drawing Council of Canada) in 1951.
She began exhibiting her work in 1921.In 1929 she was included in "The First Exhibition of British Linocuts," at the Redfern Gallery, London and she continued exhibiting there until 1939. She has also been included in the "12th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum, USA (1931); the"15th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum (1934); "Two Hundred Years of British Graphic Art," (Prague, Vienna, Bucharest/1935); the "16th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum (1935); the "17th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum (1936); the "19th International Print Makers Exhibition," Los Angeles Museum (1938); the "Northwestern Printmakers Annual," Seattle Art Museum (1953); the "Modern Sacred Art" exhibition, sponsored by the Inter-American Congress of Religious History and Art, Museo Historico de la Iglesia de Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1954); the "Northwestern Printmakers Annual," Seattle Art Museum (1954); the "Northwestern Printmakers Annual," Seattle Art Museum (1955); "A Retrospect Into Canadian Printmaking," Toronto Public Reference Library (1958); "British Printmakers 1850-1940," P & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London (1975); "Futuristi Inglesi: Claude Flight & la Sua Cerchia," (Italian Tour includes, Genoa, Milan, Rome, Bologna, Brescia, Bolsano, Padua) under sponsorship of Compagnia del Disegno (1977 -1978); and in "The Society of Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers in Retrospect," organized for a national tour by the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Ontario/1981). In 1982-83 the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta organized a major retrospective of her work that toured Canada and in 1990 she contributed to the British Museum's "Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-1960" exhibition.
The venues for other solo and group shows have been: the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa/1935), the National Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide/1940), Gainsborough Gallery (Johannesburg, South Africa/1945), the Vancouver Art Gallery (B.C./1948/travelling), the Royal Ontario Museum (CPE Exhibition) (Toronto/ 1949, 50,51, 52, 53,54,56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64, 65, 69), the Edmonton Museum of Arts (Alberta/1951), and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (B.C./1976). In 2006 two of Andrews' most famous linocuts "Speedway" and "Racing" were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (NYC).
Some of the public collections are the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), the Legion of Honor Museum (San Francisco), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the British Museum (London), the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (B.C.), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and many more.
The Glenbow Museum in Calgary is a major centre for the study of her work with over 1000 examples including all of her famous colour linocuts, the original linoleum blocks, paintings in oil and watercolour, drawings, drypoint etchings, sketchbooks, and personal papers. The St. Edmundsbury Borough Council Heritage Service also has a very large collection housed at the Bury St Edmonds Art Gallery, Moyses Hall, Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk.
As a prominent artist her work is discussed in many magazine and newspaper articles. She is also listed in A Dictionary of Canadian Artists (1974), by Colin S. MacDonald; The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction (2001), by Anthony R. Westbridge and Diana L. Bodnar; Who's Who in American Art 15th Edition (1982); in Falk's Who Was Who in American Art; and in the Encyclopedia of British Columbia" (2000),.
Her work is also illustrated and discussed in By A Lady - Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women (1992) by Maria Tippett; in Prints, Posters & Photographs (1993), by Susan Theran; and in Art BC: Masterworks from British Columbia (2000), by Ian Thom. She also wrote the book Artist's Kitchen (1985) published by R.K.Hudson.
- Creator:Sybil Andrews (1898 - 1992, British)
- Creation Year:1930
- Dimensions:Height: 15 in (38.1 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1156211787722
Sybil Andrews
Sybil Andrews was an English-Canadian artist who specialized in printmaking and is best known for her reductionist linocuts. Born in 1898 in Bury St Edmunds, Andrews was unable to go straight to art school after her high school, as her family could not afford the tuition fees. Given the shortage of young men during the First World War, in 1916 she was apprenticed as a welder, working in the Bristol Welding Company’s airplane factory, helping in the development of the first all-metal airplane. During this period, she took an art correspondence course. After the war, Andrews returned to Bury St Edmunds, where she was employed as an art teacher at Portland House School. Between 1922–24, she attended the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. Andrews continued to practice the art and met the architect Cyril Power, who became a mentor figure, and then her working partner until 1938. Between 1930–38, Andrews and Power shared a studio in Hammersmith. In 1933, Andrews and Cyril Power had an exhibition of their color monotypes and linocuts at the Redfern Gallery. Most of her monotypes were destroyed by a fire in an Ottawa gallery, in 1959 and they are therefore now seldom seen.
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