Ethleen Palmer | Masked Finches | 1936 | SOLD
Masked Finches | 1936
10.1 x 10.9 cm
A colour linocut printed on Japanese paper
numbered, dated, titled and signed lower margin
Edition 48 of 75
Exhibited:
Ethleen Palmer: Printmaker of the 1930s: Colour Linocuts and Serigraphs 1933-1951, The Ward Gallery, Sydney, 29 April - 24 May 1980, no.23 (illus. p.4, another example)
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.
