Raymond McIntyre
Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1879, d.1933
Untitled
- c. 1917
- Lithograph
- Purchased, 2002
- 395 x 340 x 15mm
- 2002/265
Location: Burdon Family Gallery
Tags: buildings (structures), frames (ornament areas), landscapes (representations), monochrome, people (agents), silhouettes, trees, urban landscapes
Printmaking underwent a remarkable revival in the United Kingdom during the early 20th century. McIntyre was encouraged to produce work in several different print mediums including woodcut and linocut, etching and lithography at this time. With their simplified viewpoint and minimal approach, McIntyre’s woodcuts in particular seem to resonate with the shorthand mark-making found in his ink drawings.
(Raymond McIntyre: A Modernist View, 25 October 2025 – 8 March 2026)
Exhibition History
Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era, 11 February – 28 May 2023
Like many New Zealand artists of his generation, Raymond McIntyre travelled to England to further his studies. By 1910 he was studying at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, where he engaged with contemporary post-impressionist developments in British art. The results of his studies can be seen in the prints he produced around 1917, which relate to a series of paintings he made of London’s inner city.Raymond’s interest in printmaking, and woodcuts in particular, was likely influenced by his close friendship with fellow artist Edward McKnight Kauffer, a member of London’s innovative Bloomsbury Group