Grosvenor School of Modern Art

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Grosvenor School of Modern Art
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33 Warwick Square, the former home of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (scaffolded, centre)
Active 1925 (1925)–1940 (1940)[1]:{{{3}}}
Founder Iain Macnab
Location
London
,
United Kingdom

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The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was a private British art school. It was founded in 1925 by the Scottish wood engraver Iain Macnab in his house at 33 Warwick Square in Pimlico, London.[1]:{{{3}}}[2]:{{{3}}} From 1925 to 1930 Claude Flight ran it with him, and also taught linocutting there; among his students were Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi.[3]:{{{3}}}

The school

The school had no formal curriculum and students studied what and when they wished. There were day and evening courses: life classes, classes in composition and design, and classes on the history of Modern Art. Frank Rutter taught a course entitled "From Cézanne to Picasso".[2]:{{{3}}} Macnab's wife, the dancer Helen Wingrave, gave a dance course.[4]:{{{3}}}

The Grosvenor School closed in 1940.[5]:{{{3}}}

Legacy

The school did much to revive interest in print-making in general, and particularly in the linocut, in the years between the Wars.[5]:{{{3}}} Artists associated with it have come to be known as the "Grosvenor School", and their work commands high prices.[6]:{{{3}}}

Alumni

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See also: Category:Alumni of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art

Among those who studied at the school were:

Spowers, Black and Syme became instrumental in organising exhibitions and promoting the school in Australia.[citation needed]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hal Bishop (2004). Macnab, Iain, of Barachastlain (1890–1967). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64517 (subscription required)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mike O'Mahony (2012). Imaging Sport at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (1929–37); in: Mike Huggins, Mike O'Mahony (eds.) (2012). The Visual in Sport. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415585071. p. 19–34.
  3. ↑ Stephen Bury (ed.) (2012). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, volume 1, Abbo – Lamp. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199923052.
  4. ↑ Lora S. Urbanelli (1988). The Grosvenor School: British Linocuts between the Wars (exhibition catalogue). Providence: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. ISBN 9780911517491.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Tim Jones (27 June 2014). Wood engraving artist finally won recognition. The Press; available at Christchurch Art Gallery – Te Puna O Waiwhetu. Accessed March 2015.
  6. ↑ Colin Gleadell (17 Apr 2012). London Original Print Fair: Prints that move like lightening [sic]. Daily Telegraph.
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