Issue link: http://read.uberflip.com/i/569003
3 Nigel Farrow, chairman and owner of Lund Humphries and I hatched a plan a few years ago to publish a series of individual catalogues of the complete prints by the leading artists of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. As well as Sybil Andrews this includes her colleagues Cyril Power, Claude Flight, Lill Tschudi and the three Australians Dorrit Black, Eveline Syme and Ethel Spowers. The complete series will complement the scholarly but out- of-print Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School compiled and written by Stephen Coppel (Scolar Press 1995). Cyril Power Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue, the first book in the series, was published in paperback in 2009 (a hardback was produced in 2013). Recording the life and work of Cyril Power (1872-1951) Philip Vann's book was launched with an exhibition of all Power's linocuts at the Osborne Samuel gallery. The first-class text and catalogue were both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. To accompany the new book this exhibition catalogue illustrates over 40 works from our collection of linocuts by Sybil Andrews. In addition we have included a further 30 prints from our stock of linocuts by her friends and colleagues who worked or studied under Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School during the 1920s and 30s. Andrews was a printmaker first and foremost and, like her Grosvenor School colleagues, was encouraged by their mentor and teacher Claude Flight (1881-1955)). They adopted a Cubist-Futurist-Vorticist pictorial language that discarded the outrageous political ideas of the Futurists and cultivated instead a personal adaptation of modernism. The Grosvenor School of Modern Art opened in 1925 at 33 Warwick Way, just behind London's Victoria Station. The principal was the wood engraver Iain MacNab; Frank Rutter, an eminent critic and writer lectured on Modern Painters from Cézanne to Picasso; Cyril Power lectured on The Form and Structure of Buildings, Historical Ornament and Symbolism and The Outline of Architectural Styles 1 and 24 year old Sybil Andrews was the School Secretary. Here Claude Flight taught his technique of linocut printing and gathered a coterie of students that included Power and Andrews, William Greengrass, Lill Tschudi and Edith Lawrence. Also amongst Flight's students were the Antipodeans Ethel Spowers, Eveline Syme and Dorrit Black; all three later played a prominent part in organizing exhibitions in Australia. Linoleum is a mixture of ground cork, linseed oil and rosin, a resin compound, on a canvas backing. It was used as flooring but was adopted by artists as a printmaking This exhibition marks the publication of Sybil Andrews Linocuts – The Complete Catalogue compiled and written by Hana Leaper and published by Lund Humphries Publishing and Osborne Samuel gallery. Introduction 1. From the prospectus for the Grosvenor School of Modern Art dated 1925 by Gordon Samuel