Ethelbert White

Netley Mill

Ethelbert White's original wood engraving, "Netley Mill" is printed upon hand-made mulberry paper and published in the limited edition of fifty impressions. It is signed, titled and numbered by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. Netley Mill is a fine, original example of the landscape art created by the British artist, Ethelbert White.

Netley Mill

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Title:	Netley Mill
Artist:	White, Ethelbert (Islesworth, 1891 - London, 1972)
Date:	Between 1923 & 1926
Medium:	Original Wood Engraving
Note:	"Ethelbert White has made many delightful engravings of the country-side which he so loves. His life is spent moving in a caravan over the southern English counties. He had no art-school discipline but his work shows undoubted reminiscences of Spode willow-pattern plates and old English sporting prints, as well as of the Douanier Rousseau and modern French painting. But he has made a delightful and really personal amalgam of such stylistic influences, and there is something of the country-side in all he does. His wood-engravings, broad and frank and charmingly 'swung-in', give us great pleasure; and his patterning of the shapes of trees and ricks and barns is as successful as it is bold." *
	One of England's greatest twentieth century painters, poster artists, illustrators, wood and linocut engravers, Ethelbert White was educated at St. George's College, Weybridge, and briefly studied art at St. John's Wood School of Art in 1911 and 1912. Marrying at the age of nineteen he and his wife spent much of their years touring England in a caravan and visiting France and Spain, always creating art and collecting and preserving folk songs.
	Ethelbert White first gained public attention as a designer, engraver and book decorator for the Beaumont Press. Books he illustrated with his wood engravings for this publishing house include Impressions of the Russian Ballet (1919), Home (1920), The Smile of the Sphinx (1920) and, The Good-Humoured Ladies (1922). As a wood engraver, Ethelbert White was completely self-taught and he was a pioneer in the 1920's revival of the use of this medium for book illustrations.
	Ethelbert White's first one man show took place at London's Carfax Gallery in 1921. The same year he was elected a member of both the Society of Wood Engravers and the New English Art Club. In 1934 he was also elected to the Royal Watercolour Society.
	During the 1920's White's wood engraving became a standard for contemporary developments in England. One author wrote,
	"Amongst the artists of the younger generation in England who have turned more resolutely to simpler ideals and whose style, moreover, is hailed as distinctly English is Ethelbert White. English enough his style is if we mean by that a certain frank simplicity and stiffness and precision; yet it could never have come about but for the reaction which set in during the first decade of this century against pictorial impressionism and literary aestheticism". **
	Despite Ethelbert White's great success and influence he produced his final wood engraving in 1930. From that date, however, he turned with equal effectiveness to the sister art of the linocut. Ethelbert White's last exhibition took place at London's Leicester Galleries in 1971. Today the art of this most important wood engraver and linocut artist will be found in many major British collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Museum and the Ashmolean.
Reference:	* Douglas Percy Bliss, A History of Wood-Engraving, London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1928, pp. 214-217.
	** Herbert Furst, The Modern Woodcut, London, John Lane, 1924, pp. 208 & 209.
Edition:	Limited edition of fifty impressions, numbered 19/50.
Size:	5 1/2 X 6 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon hand-made mulberry (rice) paper and with full two inch margins on all sides. Pencil signed, titled and numbered, '19/50', by the artist along the lower margin. Containing a horizontal crease in the lower margin, well away from the actual engraving and under the matte; else a brilliantly printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Netley Mill represents a prime, original example of the famous wood engraved art of Ethelbert White.
	The Art Fund of Great Britain includes an impression of Netley Mill in its permanent collection.
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