Cox, Morris: On the Seashore
£300.00
A wonderfully dreamlike woodcut in four colours by this expert printmaker, the edition number and title are marked in pencil to the lower left margin, the print is signed and dated to the lower right margin, there is also a printed label to the reverse.
This limited edition print is number three of only 43 copies and is housed in its original frame.
The print is from the family of Alan Tucker (1933-2017), Stroud bookseller and poet, and co-author of ‘Morris Cox and the Gogmagog Press’ (1991).
Artist: Morris Cox, 1903-1998
Title and date: On the Seashore, 1946
Print size: 17.8 x 24.1 cms.
Description
Morris Cox was a printer, writer, poet, printmaker, painter and puppeteer who was born and lived in London. At the age of 13, Cox received a scholarship to West Ham School of Art where he trained for six years. In the late 1920s, he worked in advertising then turned to printmaking, painting, designing book jackets, writing novels and poetry.
Cox produced colour linocuts from 1930 of which this print is an example, and painted in oil and watercolour for over 60 years.
In 1957, Cox set up the Gogmagog Press to print his own work and 35 highly original, beautifully illustrated, hand-made limited edition books followed between 1957 and 1983.
In 1994 the Victoria & Albert Museum held an exhibition to celebrate their acquisition of Cox’s personal archive of Gogmagog books and early colour prints.