Blue Water

Location

Country: Netherlands
City: The Hague
Place: British Embassy

John Brunsdon went to Cheltenham College of Art (1949-53) and then the Royal College of Art, London, (1955–58), where he studied printmaking with Julian Trevelyan. He later became Head of Printmaking at St Alban's School of Art. He is a member of the Printmakers Council and author of The Technique of Etching and Engraving (1965). He exhibited at a number of galleries in the 1960s and 1970s. Later commissions include A Celebration of Shakespearean Properties for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1990. His work is represented in public collections including the Arts Council; the British Council, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Places

Subjects

abstract

Materials & Techniques

etching, colour etching, aquatint

Artist

John Reginald Brunsdon (1933 - 2014)

Title

Blue Water

Edition

15/50

Date

1963

Medium

Colour etching and aquatint

Dimensions

height: 45.00 cm, width: 61.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Editions Alecto, 1967

Inscription

below image: [left] Blue Water, [centre] 15/50, [right] John R Brunsdon 1963

GAC number

7774