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Wet afternoon
1930
Medium
colour linocut
Measurements
24.2 × 20.3 cm (block) 35.8 × 22.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1947
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Ethel Spowers was one of the Australian artists, along with Eveline Syme and Dorrit Black, who travelled to London in the 1920s to study with the innovative printmaker Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Flight was the major exponent of colour printing in Britain in the interwar period. He advocated a new method of relief printing in which three to four different colours were used to build up images without the use of an outline or ‘key’ block. The colours create rhythmic patterns, repeated in the shapes of umbrellas on a busy city street.
Artwork Details
Edition
ed. of 50
Inscription
inscribed in pencil l.l.: Wet Afternoon. Edition of 50 / Try next prints with red much paler.
Accession Number
1780-4
Departments
Australian Prints / Australian Prints & Drawings
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