About the Artwork
Sybil Andrews was one of a group of English artists who elevated color linoleum cuts to an unprecedented level of achievement in the first half of the twentieth century. At the time, linoleum had almost no history as a printmaking medium. It was pioneered by artists of the Grosvenor School, a group of former students of Charles Flight at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. This was one of the few British art schools of the era that exposed students to avant-garde European art. Andrews’ strong graphic style and sense of design echo the many burgeoning forms of abstraction that characterized the early decades of the century. But instead of the speed and technological advances of the modern world celebrated by movements like Futurism and Vorticism, she sought to capture the rhythms and dynamic movement of human figures, or, more rarely, of a landscape.
From Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 89 (2015)
Storm
1935
Sybil Andrews
1898-1992
Canadian
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Linoleum cut printed in color on cream oriental paper
Block: 13 × 9 1/8 inches (33 × 23.2 cm) Sheet: 14 3/8 × 11 1/8 inches (36.5 × 28.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Museum Purchase, from the Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund
2014.10
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower left: Sybil Andrews
Inscribed, in pencil, following the signature, lower left: "Storm" A.T.P. 2
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2014-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Sybil Andrews, Storm, 1935, linoleum cut printed in color on cream oriental paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, from the Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund, 2014.10.
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