After the successful collaborations with St. Judes Gallery and Mark Hearld during the Edward Bawden exhibition we have asked Johnny Hannah to produce this fantastic design for our Clocking In exhibition. The poster is available to buy as an original signed screenprint from the gallery at £20.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Johnny Hannah Artwork
After the successful collaborations with St. Judes Gallery and Mark Hearld during the Edward Bawden exhibition we have asked Johnny Hannah to produce this fantastic design for our Clocking In exhibition. The poster is available to buy as an original signed screenprint from the gallery at £20.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Picture of the Week No.3 - Albrecht Dürer
The lawn outside the gallery is still dusted with snow and the tea room full of mince pies, so I couldn't possibly do this weeks Picture of the Week without an appropriately Christmas themed image. And as we've also been thinking about masters of printmaking, an example of Albrecht Dürer's exsquisite wood engraving is most appropriate. KP
Albrecht DÜRER (1471 - 1528)Adoration of the Kings, 1511
woodcut, 29.3 x 22cm (image)
29.6 x 22.3cm (sheet)
inscribed: monogram
29.6 x 22.3cm (sheet)
inscribed: monogram
Accession No.P.456
PROVENANCE: P&D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, from whom purchased by Gallery, January 1964
REFERENCES: ed. Dr W. Kurth, The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, 1963, no.262, as The Adoration of the Magi, illus.
NOTES: Paper has the water mark Bull's Head with J.Z.
A prolific printmaker, Dürer made some two hundred and fifty woodcuts in the course of his career. His initial fame as a printmaker was established through the publication of a series of large woodcuts and text for The Revelation of St John (The Apocalypse), 1498, notable for being the first book to be both illustrated and published by an artist.
It has been suggested that due to the high quality of line and detail, Dürer would have cut his own woodblocks. However, it is more likely that he employed professional block-cutters (Formschneider) to undertake this work, as there would have been a large pool of available craftsmen available for this purpose. Dürer would have closely supervised both the careful selection of the blocks and the actual cutting, to ensure that the quality of the design (which he would have drawn directly onto the block himself) was not lost. The earliest surviving example of a woodblock by Dürer is St Jerome in his Study, 1492, the block being signed on the reverse Albrecht Dürer von Nömergk (Basel, Universitätsbibliothek). In this early example the block is far more crudely cut than the work undertaken at Nuremberg, where a tradition of skilled craftsmanship had been encouraged in the print workshops of artists such as Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) and Anton Koberger (c.1440-1513) who ran one of the largest in Europe at this time.
JMcG
PROVENANCE: P&D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd, from whom purchased by Gallery, January 1964
REFERENCES: ed. Dr W. Kurth, The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, 1963, no.262, as The Adoration of the Magi, illus.
NOTES: Paper has the water mark Bull's Head with J.Z.
A prolific printmaker, Dürer made some two hundred and fifty woodcuts in the course of his career. His initial fame as a printmaker was established through the publication of a series of large woodcuts and text for The Revelation of St John (The Apocalypse), 1498, notable for being the first book to be both illustrated and published by an artist.
It has been suggested that due to the high quality of line and detail, Dürer would have cut his own woodblocks. However, it is more likely that he employed professional block-cutters (Formschneider) to undertake this work, as there would have been a large pool of available craftsmen available for this purpose. Dürer would have closely supervised both the careful selection of the blocks and the actual cutting, to ensure that the quality of the design (which he would have drawn directly onto the block himself) was not lost. The earliest surviving example of a woodblock by Dürer is St Jerome in his Study, 1492, the block being signed on the reverse Albrecht Dürer von Nömergk (Basel, Universitätsbibliothek). In this early example the block is far more crudely cut than the work undertaken at Nuremberg, where a tradition of skilled craftsmanship had been encouraged in the print workshops of artists such as Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) and Anton Koberger (c.1440-1513) who ran one of the largest in Europe at this time.
JMcG
This text originally appeared in Prints, by the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, 2004.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Publications
Since 2002, the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery has been focused on producing high-quality catalogues of it's collections. Each catalogue has been produced in hardback and has a full colour image for every entry.
Edward Bawden
Caroline Bacon, James McGregor
Edward Bawden donated the contents of his studio to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery between 1981 and 1989. The collection, consisting of over 3,000 items illustrates works from his student days in 1919, through to the 1980s and covers every medium he used from watercolours and prints to examples of his commercial designs. Featuring previously unpublished material, this book will prove an invaluable guide to the work of one of the most important artists of his generation.
Price : £25.00 + £6 p&p
Price : £25.00 + £6 p&p
Cecil Higgins Watercolour Catalogue
Evelyn Joll
The Gallery has been collecting British watercolours since 1951. In the past fifty years it has acquired some six hundred of the best known images and examples by leading artists from the late 16th century to the present. Fully illustrated in colour and produced in hardback, this superb catalogue is a indispensable guide to the gallery's collection.
Price £39.95 + £6 p&p
Cecil Higgins Print Catalogue
Caroline Bacon, James McGregor, Julia Nurse
Caroline Bacon, James McGregor, Julia Nurse
Published as a companion to Cecil Higgins Watercolour Catalogue, this sumptuous and comprehensive catalogue details the print collection held in the Gallery. With over three hundred works fully illustrated, by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Hockney and Freud, this volume is an indispensable guide to the history of printmaking from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the 20th century and includes a full glossary of printmaking terms.
Price £35.00 + £6 p&p
Price £35.00 + £6 p&p
To order contact chag@bedford.gov.uk or ring 01234 211222
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