Enid Marx Endpaper (Mixed Colours)
The Judd Street Gallery has recreated these beautiful Enid Marx designed book endpaper in red, dark blue and pale blue. These finely-printed matt surface sheets make luxurious gift wrap, but would also be fantastic for covering books or even lining drawers or shelves.
Measures 48 x 70cm
Sold as a pack of 3 mixed sheets (one of each colour)
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Artists Biography
Enid Marx (1902-1998)
Marx, sometimes called 'Marco' was a successful textile designer, who also worked as a painter, printmaker, children's book author and illustrator, designer of book jackets, trademarks and postage stamps. She was commissioned in 1937 to design seating fabric for Underground trains. Marx was a member of the Design Panel of the Utility Furniture Advisory Committee (1944-7), the first woman engraver to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry (1944) and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Artists. She taught and lectured on the history of textiles, and published two books with Margaret Lambert "English Popular and Traditional Art" 1946 and "English Popular Art" 1951. In 1965, she became head of the department of Dress, Textiles and Ceramics at Croydon College of Art.
