Adventures in the Print Trade

Share my excitement and my discoveries as I delve ever deeper into the world of prints and printmakers

Thursday, June 20, 2019

The Pre-Impressionists: Camille Corot

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was born in Paris in 1796; he died in Paris in 1875, the year after the First Impressionist Exhibition. The free...

The Pre-Impressionists: Charles Jacque and Léon Jacque

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Hello everyone. I'm not intending to revive this blog, as I simply don't have the time, but I have found a few posts that are so nea...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Jacob Balgley: a forgotten contemporary of Chagall

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Jacob Balgley, Rue à Jérusalem Etching How many of us have ever heard of Jacob Balgley, a direct contemporary of Marc Chagall? Not ...
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Friday, June 30, 2017

The Pre-Impressionists: Paul Huet

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Paul Huet was born in Paris in 1803. was a pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and a friend and associate of Delacroix an...
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Friday, January 20, 2017

New book on Emma Bormann

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I would like to alert my readers to a new book on the neglected Austrian Expressionist artist Emma Bormann (1887-1974), by her grandson Andr...
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Friday, January 6, 2017

The Pre-Impressionists: Charles-Francois Daubigny

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Charles-François Daubigny was born in Paris in 1817. One of the leading artists of the Barbizon School, Daubigny is a significant fore-runne...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Entartete Kunst: Degenerate Art

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Starting from 1905 and working up to a crescendo in the 1920s, German art saw an incredible flowering of brilliance in the early decades of ...
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I am a writer with a keen interest in prints and printmaking, although I no longer deal in prints. Among my books are Mythology (with Philip Wilkinson), English Folktales, The Cinderella Story, Victorian Village Life, and The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse. I have also published three collections of original poetry, Holding the World Together, The Cardinal Directions, and A Viking Ship-Burial on the Volga. All text and photographs on this blog are copyright © Neil Philip. Copyright in the artworks remains with the artists or their estates.
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