Silent Noon : woodcut by John F Greenwood : reproduced in Penroses Annual, 1935
"Regulars" will know that I am very fond of the woodcuts by Jogn Greenwood who seems to have mostly been active during the inter-war years and most of whose works are of Pennine landscapes around his West Yorkshire home. Many are of Wharfedale where I now live and so these are often evocative of local lanes.
This - "Silent Noon" - appears in the 1935 Penroses Annual as one of the year's representative samples of work and it was reproduced by students at the College of Arts & Crafts in Bradford, the city where the Annual was printed at Lund Humphries's County Press. The woodcut looks 'odd' in that it is printed on a sepia glassine paper, probably to show student dexterity and skill in printing on such a medium, but it makes reproduction difficult. Nevertheless it is a very Yorkshire Dales landscape.
Silent Noon : woodcut by John F Greenwood : reproduced in Penroses Annual, 1935
"Regulars" will know that I am very fond of the woodcuts by Jogn Greenwood who seems to have mostly been active during the inter-war years and most of whose works are of Pennine landscapes around his West Yorkshire home. Many are of Wharfedale where I now live and so these are often evocative of local lanes.
This - "Silent Noon" - appears in the 1935 Penroses Annual as one of the year's representative samples of work and it was reproduced by students at the College of Arts & Crafts in Bradford, the city where the Annual was printed at Lund Humphries's County Press. The woodcut looks 'odd' in that it is printed on a sepia glassine paper, probably to show student dexterity and skill in printing on such a medium, but it makes reproduction difficult. Nevertheless it is a very Yorkshire Dales landscape.