Ethleen Palmer | Blue Wren 1934 | SOLD
Full Sheet
Blue Wren | 1934
Impression size: 9.5 x 10.2 cm
Sheet size: 17 x 16.2 cm
A colour linocut printed on Japanese paper. Dated, titled and signed in pencil in the lower margin
Edition unknown
Inscribed on backing paper in pencil in the artists hand: “This could not be printed by a machine from multiple lino blocks”
SOLD
Ethleen Palmer (1906- 1958)
BIO
Ethleen Palmer major contributor to the female print movement of the 1920s and 30s. Her contemporaries were Preston, Proctor, Spowers, Blackburn etc. Rather than imitating the style adopted by these iconic artists she created prints with a distinctly Japanese feel. Her ability to capture movement and nature in the Japanese style gave her the name “The Australian Hokusai”.
The Sydney Morning Herald in 1938 were so confident in her ability and talent that they called her “Australia’s leading Linocut artist” a big statement considering the other fantastic printmakers of the period.
An talented and often overlooked Australian artist.
