Hall Thorpe woodcut

A John Hall Thorpe woodcut "Flowers and Fruit" c1930.

John Hall Thorpe was born in Victoria in 1874, dying in 1947. He learned engraving and drawing whilst apprenticed to John Fairfax and Sons, Sydney. He studied at Heatherly's and St Martin's School's of Art in London, in 1902. He was a foundation member of the New South Wales Society of Artists, and was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1912. He became well known for his coloured woodcuts of flowers, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Biblio: McCulloch: Encyclopedia of Australian Art; Hall Thorpe Coloured Woodcuts, Richard King; Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940; Bénézit: Dictionnaire des Peintres.

280 x 430