Monograph BRITISH Etching Painting by EDMUND BLAMPIED

E N T H U S I A S T ART BOOKS & FINE ART We purchase Artist Estates as well as art libraries and our goal is to provide a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books, catalogs and fine art for the lover of American & European prints and paintings... The item offered is: Edmund Blampied: A Biography of the Artist, 1886-1966, by Marguerite Syvret, Societe Jersiaise, London, 1986. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. FINE Condition in Fine Dust Jacket. 4to size - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 184 pages, includes 82 illustrations with 11 in color. This book is a look at the life and art of printmaker and painter Edmund Blampied, who was one of the leading English printmakers in the 1920's. The book consists of an extended essay about his life and art interspersed with reproductions of his prints and oil painting . Published to mark the centenary of Edmund Blampied's birth, this is a detailed biography of one of the outstanding printmakers of his generation, a painter of great skill and charm who recorded everyday life in his native Jersey with humour and sympathy. FREE SHIPPING (U.S.)!About this well listed artist: In January 1903, aged 16 years old and barely able to speak English, Blampied left Jersey for the Lambeth School of Art where he was taught by Philip Connard R.A. and Thomas McKeggie. After taking a test and submitting some drawings, in May 1904 Blampied won a £20 London County Council (LCC) Scholarship for 2 years to continue his studies at any LCC art school. Later that year he was selected by the head of the Art School to work part time on the staff of a national newspaper, The Daily Chronicle, which enabled him to earn some extra money. His first published illustrations appeared in the Daily Chronicle on 13th January 1905. In September 1905 Blampied transferred from Lambeth Art School to the LCC School of Photo-engraving and Lithography at Bolt Court for the final year of his scholarship. It is believed that, after finishing full time studies at Bolt Court in the summer of 1906, he continued to work at The Daily Chronicle and then perhaps at other newspapers while studying in the evenings at Bolt Court, though very little is known about this period in his life. Etching Blampied’s earliest etchings are dated December 1909, suggesting that he did not begin to learn this technique until the academic year 1909 – 1910; his teacher at Bolt Court was Walter Seymour. Blampied’s prints were first shown at an exhibition of students’ work in March 1914, where his etching of an ox cart was noted by the correspondent of The Times. The first print believed to have been published was an etching entitled At the wings (illustrated) which was reproduced in the Annual Report of Bolt Court in 1914. Blampied later recorded his method of working on zinc for etching and copper for drypoint in Ernest Stephen Lumsden's treatise The Art of Etching (Seeley Service, 1925). Blampied wrote: I generally chose from amongst my various drawings one which would tend to produce a successful plate. I do not trace on to the copper, but copy a few important lines on to the bare metal with litho-chalk. I then sketch over this with an ordinary sewing needle and rub in a little black oil-colour. . . From the first my efforts are to improve on the sketch until I consider the plate finished. . . In very few cases do I touch a plate after the first proof, so the majority have but one state. If I am dissatisfied with either the composition or details, I prefer to start afresh upon another plate rather than make radical alterations. At the end of 1911, while he was developing his skills as an etcher, Blampied decided to try his luck as an independent artist with his own studio. The rapid developments in colour printing and advertising of the time were creating a great deal of work for commercial artists for the many book and magazine publishers in London. The first recorded illustration was for a piece of sheet music entitled the Glamour Valse, published by Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew. Blampied quickly gained commiss... read more