Line engraving,
Plate: 6 x 7 1/2 in. (15.3 x 19.3 cm.), Print: 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (24 x 26 cm.)
Tags: Robert Austin engraving plate print landscape leisure life drawing night scenes and sleep portraits women
Provenance: Private Collection
From a posthumous edition of 3 printed by David Maes in 2009
Austin
won the Rome Scholarship for engraving in 1923 and spent 3 remarkable
years in Rome before teaching engraving at the Royal College of Art,
1927-44, becoming Professor in the Department of Graphic Design,
1948-55. Austin was a meticulous craftsman-engraver and a vigorous
draughtsman, as his series of drawings of Women's Auxiliary Air Force
and ballooning activities done during World War II shows. The Tate
Gallery holds his work.
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, organised an exhibition of his work in 1980.
More
recently he was the subject of two shows at the Fine Art Society plc
(2001 and 2002), the latter organized organised in conjunction with Liss
Fine Art Ltd, and a show at The Royal Academy of Arts in 2009; (he was
elected a Royal Academician in 1949).
