‘It is in the drawings … that the key to Brangwyn’s greatness is to be found’ – TW Earp, ‘ Brangwyn Art at Academy’, Daily Telegraph, 10th October, 1952.

Liss Llewellyn is delighted to present ‘Sir Frank Brangwyn: Works on Paper‘ – a selling exhibition of drawings by one of Modern British Art’s greatest draughtsmen. Although he received no formal training, few twentieth-century British artists could rival the technical excellence of Sir Frank Brangwyn’s drawing, with its vigorous approach and directness of observation, and in this respect, he might be compared to Augustus John and William Orpen.

This campaign includes studies for many of Brangwyn’s major commissions, such as the murals for the Rockefeller Center and Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, the scheme for the dining room of the RMS Empress of Britain, and the British Empire Panels, now in situ at Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. The exhibition also includes studies for unrealised projects, such as Brangwyn’s designs in mosaic for the dome decoration for Selfidge’s, Oxford Street. These works pay testament to a pre-eminent talent.