A useful overview of these early SWE days is provided in an Introduction by Joanna Selborne. Biographies of almost every one of the 342 exhibiting engravers will be published for the first time, alongside the transcribed minute books of the Society, surviving correspondence, press cuttings, private view invitations, posters, and the entire list of exhibited prints. This book, published in two volumes, brings together text amounting to a quarter of a million words with a huge quantity of work produced by the members during the first 20 or so years of the Society. ![]() ![]() The backroom story is also one of struggle, particularly when the SWE split in 1925, and its offshoot the English Wood Engraving Society, was formed. Although numerous travelling exhibitions were put on with many brilliant prints, sales struggled. One hundred years earlier, seven engravers met in Philip Hagreen’s studio and six of those seven agreed to form a new Society with a single agreed purpose of mounting exhibitions devoted to ‘ woodcutting and engraving by the European method’.ĭuring these early years between 19, the Society comprised a tiny group of about fifteen to twenty members, plus a few associates. March 2020 marked the Centenary of the Society of Wood Engravers. ![]() The History of the Society of Wood Engravers 1920-46īy Simon Lawrence & introduced by Joanna Selborne
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