Speedway Print by Sybil Andrews
- Medium: Giclée Print
- Numbered
- Number of editions: 850
- Unframed
- Print size: 27.5cm (W) x 38.5cm (H)
- Paper size: 42cm (W) x 59.5cm (H)
£135.00
Add to basketSpeedway Print by Sybil Andrews
Giclée Print reproduction of the original Linocut (c1934). Limited Edition (1/850) on 310gsm thick, 100% cotton rag.
This wonderful print was originally conceived (though never fully realised as such) as an advertisement. It was commissioned by the London Passenger Transport Board at a time in Britain when Speedway racing had recently arrived, and by 1934, when this print was made, had already become a very popular spectator sport.
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Artists Biography
Sybil Andrews Morgan was best known for her work as a printmaker and her modernist linocuts. Her introduction to art took place in the form of a correspondence course with John Hassall while she was working in Bristol as an oxyacetylene welder during the First World War. She then studied with Henry G. Massey at Heatherley School of Fine Art, London, and in 1922 with Claude Flight at the Grosvenor School of Fine Art, London.
By the 1930s she enjoyed an international reputation for her modernist colour linocuts focusing on images of people at work and on sporting events and between 1929 and 1937 she produced a series of posters (in collaboration with Cyril Power) under the pseudonym "Andrew Power." She married Walter Morgan in 1943 and in 1947 the couple immigrated to Campbell River, British Columbia, where Andrews taught art classes and wrote a book, "Artists' Kitchen."
In 1991, Andrews donated 575 works of art, including oils, watercolours, drawings, woodcuts, and drypoints, to the Glenbow Museum. Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is owned by the Glenbow Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
