Holiday School Print by John Tunnard
by John Tunnard
- Medium: Lithograph
- Numbered
- Number of editions: Unknown
- Unframed
- Print size: 86cm x 50cm
- Paper size: 86cm x 50cm
£295.00
Add to basketHoliday School Print by John Tunnard
Limited edition original 1947 lithograph from the 'School Prints' series.
About the School Prints
Towards the end of the Second World War Brenda Rawnsley and her husband Derek had the idea of bringing contemporary art to young children who would otherwise not have had the opportunity to see ‘good’ work. Within a few years Brenda had set up School Prints Ltd to sell original lithographs to schools and had commissioned several of the most important living artists for her scheme.
Brenda Rawnsley sought the advice and assistance of the art historian Herbert Read and between them they chose the artists. The printing was undertaken by the Baynard Press from stones or zinc plates drawn by the artists, who were asked to use no more than six colours. The prints, being original lithographs, were often the first real art seen by young people of that period and are typical of their time.
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Artists Biography
John Samuel Tunnard is known for his paintings of private worlds. He studied at the Royal College of Art and was a textile designer until his early 30s when he started to paint. His work was initially realist, often with gates or telegraph poles guiding the viewer into the far distance. He then turned to more abstract painting and from the 1940s onwards developed his characteristic style seen in Holiday.
Tunnard was sometimes called a surrealist and was several times in the late 1930s included in exhibitions with well-known surrealists, but this was never a term which strict surrealists applied to him, nor one which he applied to himself. Klee, Miro and the constructivists had the most influence on his work.
Many of his works from the late 1930s and 1940s are held by the Tate and regional and overseas galleries, but there is little from the late period in public collections - not because of the quality of the painting, but simply because Tunnard had gone out of fashion by the mid-1960s.
