This is an interesting and rare 1920s / 1930s colour woodcut by the Scottish printmaker: ECA Brown. It is pencil signed lower left.
The artist is Elizabeth Christie Austen-Brown (1869 - 1942) She was born Elizabeth Christie in 1869 and married Scottish artist Thomas Austen-Brown (1857-1924). They both studied color woodblock printing with Frank Morley Fletcher, who taught the Japanese woodcut method to Allen Seaby, Mabel Royds, William Giles, Ada Shrimpton, and others at the Reading School of Art in Berkshire, England between 1898 and 1906.
The Austen-Browns spent much time between London and a studio at the artists’ colony in Camiers near Etaples in northern France. Many of their works are of rural French subjects.
Austen-Brown exhibited with the Society of Graver-Printmakers in Colour, 1910- 28; the Royal Society of British Artists, 1931, to which she was an elected member. She also showed at the Goupil Gallery, London; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Redfern Gallery, London; the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. Examples of her work are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, London, as well as the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the USA.
Elizabeth Christie Austen-Brown died in England in 1942.
The artist has probably been inspired by the magnificent oil painting of two haystacks by the French Impressionist, Claude Monet, which is in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. The artist has kept the same central motif of the two haystacks but has changed the scene from a snow-covered landscape to a moonlit image - so that she can use the more vibrant dark blues in the sky in the Japanese manner. The style and technique are typical of her work. Examples of her work are now in museum collections and do not come on the market that often. This work has been in my own personal collection for over 20 years - another impression of this subject is in the British Museum.
The print has a new fresh window mount, and a simple black wooden frame, as photographed. It is all ready for you to just hang on your wall. The print has been trimmed right down to the margins on the right and left-hand sides of the sheet - but this is hardly noticeable when viewed in the frame. Apart from that - there are no other condition issues with the woodcut.
Dimensions: Frame size is 36 x 44 cm. The image size is 14.5 x 1.9 cm
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