Sybil Andrews

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Sybil Andrews

Michaelmas - Sybil Andrews (1935)
Born (1898-04-19)19 April 1898
West Suffolk, England
Died 21 December 1992(1992-12-21) (aged 94)
British Columbia, Canada
Nationality British
Field Linocut
Training Heatherley School of Fine Art
Movement Modernism

Sybil Andrews (19 April 1898 – 21 December 1992) was a British-born (Bury St Edmunds) Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts.

Life in England

Andrews trained in England, and began producing and exhibiting linocuts from 1921 until 1939, working frequently with her informal partner Cyril Power. She also helped in the establishment and became the first secretary (1925–1928) of the The Grosvenor School of Modern Art.[1] She worked as an oxyacetylene welder in an aircraft factory in World War I,[1] where she helped in the development of the first all metal aeroplane for the Bristol Welding Company.[2] and in the shipyards of the Hampshire city of Southampton during World War II[1] where she met her future husband Walter Morgan. In England one of the largest collections in public ownership is held by St Edmundsbury Borough Council Heritage Service Bury St Edmunds. This collection includes a number of early water-colour paintings, executed while the artist was still living in Suffolk.

Life in Canada

In 1947 she married and moved to Canada with Walter Morgan, making her home in Campbell River, British Columbia. Sybil Andrews was elected to the Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers in 1951 when her linocut Indian Dance was selected as the presentation print. There as well as teaching and continuing her own art in 1975 she completed one of her major works, The Banner of St Edmund. It is hand embroidered in silks on linen, and was first conceived, designed and begun in 1930. This banner now hangs in the Treasury of the St James Cathedral in the town of her birth.[3]

The Glenbow Museum, Canada is a major centre for the study of her work with a collection of over 1000 examples of Andrews' works, including all of her famous colour linocuts and the original linoleum blocks, paintings in oil and watercolour, drawings, drypoint etchings, sketchbooks, and personal papers. In recent years her works have sold extremely well at auction with record prices being achieved primarily within Canada.

List of works

Collections

  • Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA
  • Virtual Museum of Canada
  • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  • Moyse's Hall Museum, Suffolk, UK
  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand
  • The Bank of New York Mellon Collection, USA (Private Collection)

Further reading

  • Coppel, Stephen. Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School. Ashgate Pub Co.; October 1995 - ISBN 0-85967-945-4 and 9780859679459 for a catalogue raisonné of seven artists including all of Andrews linocuts.
  • Reeve, Christopher. Something to Splash About; Sybil Andrews in Suffolk. St Edmundsbury Museums 1991: Bury St Edmunds, ISBN 0-9501430-7-3
  • White, Peter. Sybil Andrews: Colour linocuts - Linogravures en Couleur. Glenbow Museum, 1982 for a catalogue raisonné of all Andrews linocuts.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Parkin, Michael (1992-12-28). "Obituary: Sybil Andrews". London: The Independent. Retrieved 2009-05-02. 
  2. ↑ "The Essential Line of Sybil Andrews.". Interface 5 (2). February 1982. 
  3. ↑ St Edmundsbury, Borough Council. "The Twentieth Century - 1990 - 1999 (1992).". Retrieved 2011-04-12. 

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