With contributions by Stephen Coppel

Samantha Rippner

Thomas E. Rassieur

Stephanie Lussier

Rachel Mustalish

Malcolm Rogers

Philippe de Montebello

From the First World War to the outbreak of the Second British Prints from the Machine Age examines the impact of avantgarde Continental art on British printmaking.

More than one hundred lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and linocuts are featured, ranging from radical geometric abstractions to forceful impressions of the first fully mechanized war and colourful Jazz Age images of sporting events.

Highlighting works by thirteen artists, it focuses in particular on the well-known dynamic imagery of C. R. W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth and David Bomberg (early followers of Italian Futurism and British Vorticism) and also the works of Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi.

Clifford S. Ackley’s introduction takes stock of the art historical movement and is followed by lively discussions of the prints, an overview of the history and technique of the modern linocut, and short biographies of the artists.

Clifford S. Ackley is Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston