Lino-cuts: A Hand-book of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing

1928

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Flight wrote two manuals and numerous articles on the linocut technique. Reproduced here on the cover of his 1934 manual, The Art and Craft of Lino Cutting and Printing, is Speed, which became closely associated with him. Its long sinuous lines, simplified shapes, spare decorative elements, and flat planes of color showed that linocut was an ideal technique with which to create dynamic images of contemporary life. Linoleum—machine-made, inexpensive, new to fine art, and readily available—exemplified Flight’s belief in democratizing art production. Although tools were sold for linocutting, amateur artists of all ages could make linocuts in their homes, with materials at hand (such as a knife or an umbrella rib, and a sheet of soft linoleum) and without the expertise and expense of professional printers.

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Title: Lino-cuts: A Hand-book of Linoleum-Cut Colour Printing
Artist: Claude Flight (British, 1881–1955)
Date: 1928
Medium: Illustrated Book Bound
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Purchase, Leslie and Johanna Garfield Gift, Lila Acheson Wallace, Charles and Jessie Price, and David T Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Dolores Valvidia Hurlburt Bequest, PECO Foundation and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2019
Object Number: 2019.592.348
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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