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Artist
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Buckland Wright, John (New Zealander, b.1897, d.1954)
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Role
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Artist
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Title
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Three Bathers
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Label
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During the 1950s John Buckland Wright produced a number of prints in which female figures appear on deserted beaches. He has given a classical, idealised feeling to this work with the elegant poses of the bathers, the robes on the figure in the foreground and the tranquil setting.
Buckland Wright was a significant figure in British printmaking and book illustration during the first half of the 20th century. Although self-taught, he displayed a masterly technique. His detailed work was ideally suited to the woodcut medium.
Born in Dunedin, Buckland Wright travelled to England with his mother and siblings after his father died in 1901. During World War One he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry. Buckland Wright worked as an oil painter, etcher and engraver. He exhibited with the London Group and the Society of Wood Engravers and his book illustrations were done largely with the Golden Cockerel Press. From 1948 he taught at both the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art.
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Copyright credit line
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Reproduced courtesy of The Estate of John Buckland Wright
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Credit Line
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Transferred from the Canterbury Public Library, 1995
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Media
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Woodcut
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Accession Number
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95/26
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Date made
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1951
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Current Location
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Touring Gallery B
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