Paul Dalou Drury R.E.
Head of a Negro.
1925

Name: Head of a Negro.
Brand: Paul Dalou Drury R.E.
Price: 500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Garton catalog 15 state .ii. 5 x 4 (sheet 7 3/4 x 6 1/2). Edition about 55 published by XXI Gallery. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1925; Print Collector's Quarterly 16 (1929): 88. A fine impression with plate tone printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Signed, dated and annotated 'fec et imp' (designed and printed) in pencil, indicating a proof printed by Drury. Housed in an archival 20 x 16-inch mat. Head of a Negro was the artist's diploma print for his acceptance as a member of The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers in 1928. Printmaker, painter and teacher. Born Brockley, London 1903 (full name Paul Dalou Drury), son of the architectural sculptor, Alfred Drury (1856-1944). Educated at Bristol Grammar School and Westminster School. From 1921 studied at Goldsmiths College of Art, his work was influenced by Samuel Palmer. He later taught at Goldsmiths and also at the Sir John Cass School of Art. In 1937 he married the painter Enid Solomon. During WWII he worked in the plaster department at the Roehampton Hospital, being unfit for service having lost the sight in one eye as a child. He returned to teaching at Goldsmiths after the war, becoming principal in 1966 until his retirement in 1969. He was president of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers 1970-75. He exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and both North and South America; at the Royal Academy and for exhibitions organised by the British Council, including work in the British Pavillion at the 1939 New York World Fair. Drury was influenced by the work of Samuel Palmer, a 19th-century pastoralist, and this is seen in his early etchings in 1922.After study, Drury taught at the leading British Art Schools of the time including the Central School of Art, Heatherley School of Fine Art, and latter at the school from where he graduated, Goldsmiths.

Creator:

Paul Dalou Drury R.E. (1903 - 1987, British)

Creation Year:

1925

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)

Medium:

Etching

Movement & Style:

Modern

Period:

Early 20th Century