Claude Flight
b.1881, d.1955
Winter
- c. 1926
- Linocut
- Purchased with assistance from the Olive Stirrat bequest, 2008
- 297 x 331mm
- 2008/015
Location: Monica Richards Gallery
Tags: abstraction, cold, people (agents), trees, winter
“[By] the use of the lino-cut colour print the artist and [their] public come into a closer communion than by the expression of any other printing process, for these prints have a more personal quality than the wood-cut, the etching, the lithograph, due to the fact of their being hand-printed.” —Claude Flight, 1927
(One O'Clock Jump: British Linocuts from the Jazz Age, 7 December 2024 - 11 May 2025)
Exhibition History
Part of 'The Four Seasons' series which were prepared on some used linoleum discarded by some tenants leaving a vacant flat. The work depicts three figures hunched up with the cold of winter. Printed from 5 blocks in yellow ochre, red, mauve, cobalt blue and emerald green on thin cream oriental laid paper.
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Eileen Mayo has more than a few fans here at Christchurch Art Gallery and for me her linocuts are a standout of her works represented in the Gallery's collection.