The Crazed Moon – W B Yeats

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Ministry of Justice, 102 Petty France

Michael Rothenstein was born in London, the youngest son of the painter Sir William Rothenstein. Michael’s early career began as a landscape watercolourist, but he developed into one of the foremost printmakers of his generation. In the 1920s he studied at the Chelsea and Central Schools of Art in London; but up to 1940 he suffered a debilitating illness that impeded his work. In 1940 he was commissioned by The Pilgrim Trust to produce records of areas in Britain for the Recording Britain project. After the foundation of his studio in Essex, he established a career as a print maker who mastered numerous techniques, from linocuts to screen printing and etching. His work was exhibited and published internationally, including shows in New York, Tokyo and Vienna. In 1977 he was elected President of the Printmakers Council, and in 1983 was elected a Royal Academician. He died in Braintree, Essex at the age of eighty-five.

Places

Subjects

Yeats, William Butler, poetry, sun, moon

Materials & Techniques

text work, linocut, woodcut, colour woodcut, text

Artist

Michael Rothenstein (1908 - 1993)

Title

The Crazed Moon – W B Yeats

Portfolio Title

Suns and Moons

Edition

71/85

Date

1972

Medium

Colour woodcut and linocut with accompanying text

Dimensions

height: 54.80 cm, width: 37.80 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Business Art Galleries, July 1978

Inscription

below image, br: Michael Rothenstein

GAC number

13875