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Seagulls by Mary Elizabeth Butler

Seagulls by Mary Elizabeth Butler

Seagulls

Mary Elizabeth Butler

Title

Seagulls

 
Artist

Mary Elizabeth Butler

  1845 - 1937 (biography)
Year
c. 1915  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
11 1/4 x 8 1/8" image 
Signature
pencil signed M. E. Butler, lower right 
Edition Size
22 of 45  
Annotations
titled in pencil, lower left; bears a device with the artist's initials within image in lower right 
Reference
 
Paper
ivory wove with watermark AIR DRIED PARCHMENT 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
23233 
Price
SOLD
Description

A very rare color woodcut by M.E. Butler, done in England before her move to Pietermaritburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she died in 1937.

Butler's work shows the influence of the early British color woodcut artists, who printed in the Japanese manner. The major teacher of color woodcut was British printmaker Frank Morley Fletcher who went on to teach a generation of woodcut artists in Edinburgh, Scotland and later in Santa Barbara, California.