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==Life== |
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Set up a small studio with Ernest Mervyn Taylor in Willis St in 1937 |
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==Education== |
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==Art== |
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George Woods is best known for his graphic, stylised images and is most readily contextualised alongside contemporaries Russell Clark (1905-1966) and E. Mervyn Taylor (1906–1964). |
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The Woodcut and the Linocut - The colour linos and block prints of George Woods show a much greater degree of liberation of the colour phases. In his colour prints, George Woods sustained a planar image: but he was a powerful draughtsman, with a strong plastic sense amounting to the sculptural. (For an example lying outside the scope of this exhibition .see the acquatint Mamu: Arts Year Book 1946, page 77.) |
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George Woods (1898 – 4 April 1963) was a New Zealand draughtsman, illustrator, and artist.
Life
Set up a small studio with Ernest Mervyn Taylor in Willis St in 1937
Education
Art
Modernist George Woods is best known for his graphic, stylised images and is most readily contextualised alongside contemporaries Russell Clark (1905-1966) and E. Mervyn Taylor (1906–1964). The Woodcut and the Linocut - The colour linos and block prints of George Woods show a much greater degree of liberation of the colour phases. In his colour prints, George Woods sustained a planar image: but he was a powerful draughtsman, with a strong plastic sense amounting to the sculptural. (For an example lying outside the scope of this exhibition .see the acquatint Mamu: Arts Year Book 1946, page 77.)
Legacy
References
Ronayne, C., & Moffitt, T. (2006) Trevor Moffitt: A Biography. David Ling Pub., Michigan. ISBN 1877378100