Английская Википедия:Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood

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Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood, ARCA, RE (6 April 1900 – June 1977) was a British etcher and engraver, best known for his architectural etchings.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Leek, Staffordshire, the son of Jane and Frank Wedgwood, an engineer,[2] but brought up in Liverpool, Wedgwood attended the Liverpool Institute[3] and then served with the British Army in the First World War.[1] From 1919 to 1921 he studied at the Liverpool City School of Art[4][5] Winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London, he studied engraving there under Sir Frank Short and from 1924 under his successor Malcolm Osborne.[6]

He was a Rome scholar at the British School at Rome, having won the Engraving Prize in 1925,[7] the same year that Edward Irvine Halliday (1902–1984), a fellow Liverpudlian and also a former student at the RCA, won the Painting Prize.[8] According to Edward Morris, writing in the Connoisseur, Wedgwood "reverted to architectural subjects; his line became harder and more precise; his effects clearer and sharper; less of his work was etched, more engraved; some of the credit for these effects must go to the printer, David Strang".[9]

"In Wedgwood's architectural etchings", wrote Guichard, "the severity of the formal harmonies of square and rectangle in the roofs and walls of old buildings is relieved by gentle caricature in the small local figures that inhabit the scenes and are sympathetically observed."[10]

Career

He later taught at the Liverpool Institute from 1932 to 1935 and at the Liverpool City School of Art from 1935 until his retirement in 1960.[5][11]

He also worked as an illustrator. His etchings for menus were shown at the L.N.E.R. exhibition of poster art at Burlington Galleries in 1933.[12] Among various projects for Martins Bank advertising in the early 1950s, he was commissioned together with J. C. Armitage (Ionicus) and F. G. Lodge, to do drawings of English stately homes.[13]

Published works

Not complete

  • Roberts, Gruffydd Dewi (1935), The House that was forgotten, illus. by Geoffrey Wedgwood. London: Lovat Dickson & Thompson Limited Шаблон:OCLC
  • Roberts, Gruffydd Dewi (1937), Heron's Island, illus. by Geoffrey Wedgwood. London: Dent Шаблон:OCLC[14]

Awards and honours

Exhibitions

Works in public collections

References

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Further reading

  • Guichard, Kenneth M. (1977, 2nd ed. 1981), British Etchers 1850–1940. London: Robin Garton Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:OCLC
  • Hopkinson, Martin (1999). No Day without a Line. The History of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 1880–1999. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum hardback Шаблон:ISBN paperback Шаблон:ISBN
  • Laver, J. "The Etchings of Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood", Bookman's Journal, XII, p. 231, 1925
  • Morris, Edward (1972), Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood (exh. cat., Walker Art Gallery, 2 February – 4 March 1972). Liverpool: National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside Шаблон:ISBN Шаблон:OCLC
  • University of Liverpool (1977): The work of Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood from the collection of the University of Liverpool (exh. cat. with introduction by Andrew W. Moore). Liverpool: University of Liverpool Шаблон:OCLC and Шаблон:OCLC

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Staffordshire baptismal records. Baptised 6 May 1900 at All Saints' Church, Leek. In the 1911 census, his father is listed as a tool-maker in telephone and telegraph instruments.
  3. ↑ Liverpool Daily Post, 10 February 1942, p. 2.
  4. ↑ Later Liverpool College of Art.
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite web See also Bénézit, Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, p. 546.
  6. ↑ See George Worsley Adamson web site. See also Malcolm Osborne: L'Oiseau de Bourges.
  7. ↑ Yorkshire Evening Post, 13 July 1925, "Latest News", p. 9.
  8. ↑ See Compton, Ann: Edward Halliday: Art for Life, 1925-1939 (exh. cat. 24 October – 19 December 1997). Liverpool: University of Liverpool Art Gallery, Шаблон:ISBN, Шаблон:OCLC, p. 18.
  9. ↑ See Connoisseur, vol. 180, no. 725, July 1972, p. 239. See William Strang's portrait of his son David on the William Strang page.
  10. ↑ Guichard, Kenneth M. (1977), p. 66.
  11. ↑ See also Morris, Edward (1972). Among Wedgwood's students was George Adamson, RE, See George Worsley Adamson web site. .
  12. ↑ The Times, 16 March 1933, p. 12, stated they "should not be overlooked".
  13. ↑ See Martins Bank Magazine, Spring 1951.
  14. ↑ "Geoffrey Wedgwood's drawings brilliantly interpret the author's charming fantasy." Scotsman, 9 December 1937.
  15. ↑ These were done in the "satirical genre style of Nixon and William Strang". See Connoisseur, vol. 180, no. 725, July 1972, p. 239.
  16. ↑ "That year saw the election of one of the finest provincial engravers, Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood," wrote Martin Hopkinson (Hopkinson, Martin [1999]).
  17. ↑ Now the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
  18. ↑ Royal Cambrian Academy members.
  19. ↑ Liverpool Daily Post, 28 October 1944.
  20. ↑ Scotsman, 1 April 1932, p. 12: "Geoffrey Wedgwood's prints are always charming and crowded in amusing detail. There is a prim decorative quality about his use of line that distinguishes him from the ordinary run of architectural etchers in the Muirhead Bone tradition. . . . Behind his work there lies, one feels, a shy, droll, intelligent personality."
  21. ↑ In his review of the exhibition Edward Morris wrote: "Wedgwood was one of the first pupils to be able to study engraving alone for his diploma [at the RCA] and he profited from the vigorous manner of Job Nixon [1891–1938] rather than from the more refined, delicate approach of the Professor, Sir Frank Short." Connoisseur, vol. 180, no. 725, July 1972, p. 239.
  22. ↑ University of Liverpool (1977).
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