  
  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&acirc;&#128;&#153; 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)
  
  
  Title
  Storm
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1935
  
  Artist
  Sybil Andrews
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1898-1992
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Canadian
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Linoleum cut printed in color on cream oriental paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Block: 13 &Atilde;&#151; 9 1/8 inches (33 &Atilde;&#151; 23.2 cm)
  Sheet: 14 3/8 &Atilde;&#151; 11 1/8 inches (36.5 &Atilde;&#151; 28.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Museum Purchase, from the Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Purchase Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
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  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2014.10
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
  
  
  
