Henry Rushbury, A.R.A.

1930

Not on view

Brockhurst and Rushbury met as students at the Birmingham School of Art and remained friends after both moved to London. This etching is considered one of the artist's finest and reprises a painting of 1927 (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh) made shortly after the sitter was elected as an Associate etcher of the Royal Academy–Brockhurst became an Associate painter the following year. When shown at the Academy in 1929, the oil stimulated commissions and helped to launch Brockhurst's career as a portraitist. The etching concentrates and intensifies the composition, using monochrome to develop subtleties of texture and tone.

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Title: Henry Rushbury, A.R.A.
Artist: Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (British, Birmingham 1890–1978 Franklin Lakes, New Jersey)
Sitter: Henry George Rushbury (British, Harborne 1889–1968 Lewes)
Date: 1930
Medium: Etching; thirteenth state of thirteen
Dimensions: Plate: 9 15/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25.2 × 18.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 5/8 × 10 3/4 in. (34.6 × 27.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Bern Kennedy Bullard Jr., 1946
Object Number: 46.61
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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