Fish - O. Ward Hunt
Theme : Art and Culture

A colour-woodcut, Fish by O.Ward Hunt exhibited at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in 1927. The exhibition of woodcuts and wood-engravings was curated by Herbert Furst, author of a number of definitive art texts, including The Modern Woodcut (1924). In his foreword to the exhibition catalogue he offers 'concise definitions' for those 'unfamiliar with the processes' on show: "Colour-woodcuts are now usually produced from soft wood, the colour being printed in map-like spaces; each colour requiring a separate block, and each deepening of tone repeated printing...The map-like spaces are generally... confined within contours printed from a separate - a so-called key-block. The chief difficulty in producing such colour-prints is in the accurate super-imposition of the different colour blocks."

This Item is located at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in the Permanent Collection