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Joseph Simpson (1879 - 1939)

Frank Brangwyn (facing left with brushes) 1931

SKU: 10976

Signed and numbered in pencil 59 of 75

Etching

Ref: Granville Fell 73

 


Size:
Height – 28.9cm
Width – 36.9cm

DESCRIPTION

Provenance:
Private Collection
Presentation:
folio

According to Michael Campbell this was the thrid and finest etched portrait which Joseph Simpson made of his fellow artist and mentor Sir Frank Brangwyn. This plate was chosen to illustrate the leading article and catalogues on the etched works of Joseph Simpson in Print Collector’s Quarterly, vol.19, no.3, July 1932, p.232..

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THE ARTIST

Joseph Simpson
Joseph
Simpson
1879 - 1939

Painter, illustrator and printmaker who was born and educated in Carlisle and who studied at the Glasgow School of Art, before moving to London in 1905.

He in initially designed posters and was soon befriended and encouraged by Frank Brangwyn.

Simpson exhibited at the Baillie Gallery, Brook Street Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, GI, ISSPG, Walker Art Gallery, Leicester Galleries, London Salon, RBA who elected him a member in 1908, RSA and RSW.

He was an Official War Artist with the RAF in World War I.

Works by Simpson are in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Hunterian, IWM, Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery.

Bibliography:
The Etched Work of Joseph Simpson by H. Granville Fell. Published by J.M. Dent and Sons, London, 1932

With thanks to artbiogs.co.uk

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