John Buckland Wright
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John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He worked principally as an etcher and engraver, and was self-taught.
Biography
Buckland Wright was born on 3 December 1897 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He moved to England in 1908.<ref name="Annex Galleries">Template:Cite web</ref> Buckland Wright studied history at Oxford and then architecture in London. He soon realised that he wanted to be an artist more than an architect and by 1921 he was living in Belgium and was elected a member of the Gravure Originale Belge in 1925. He was also a member of Xylographes Belges, SWE and LG. During the 1930s, Buckland Wright lived and worked in Paris and frequently visited S W Hayter's Atelier 17.<ref name="University of Wisconsin">Template:Cite web</ref> He had one-man shows in London and throughout the continent, sometimes signing his work J B W. His work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum,<ref name="V and A Collections">Template:Cite web</ref> the British Museum,<ref name="British Museum2">Template:Cite web</ref> the National Gallery of Art,<ref name="National Gallery of Art">Template:Cite web</ref> the Museum of Modern Art,<ref name="MoMA">Template:Cite web</ref> and many galleries and museums in Europe and America. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He mentored Turkish artist and engraver Aliye Berger in the late 1940s when she moved to London and began to study engraving.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
A master printmaker with an assured, swirling line, Buckland Wright passed on his skills after World War II when he taught at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, from 1948, and the Slade School of Fine Art, from 1953, the year that his book Etching and Engraving: Techniques and the Modern Trend was published. He illustrated over 50 books.<ref>Modern British Art Gallery website, Buckland Wright, John</ref>
Buckland Wright died on 27 September 1954.<ref name="Annex Galleries"/> There was a retrospective of his work at Blond Fine Art, in 1981.<ref name="British Museum">Template:Cite web</ref>
References
Further reading
- John Buckland-Wright: Etching and Engraving: Techniques and the Modern Trend Template:ISBN
- John Buckland Wright: Endeavours & Experiments (2004. Fleece Press) Template:ISBN
- John Buckland Wright: Surreal Times (2001. Fleece Press) Template:ISBN
- Anthony Reid, A Check-list of the book illustrations of John Buckland Wright together with a personal memoir (1968. Private Libraries Association, Pinner) SBN 900002-00-X