1933 Ethel Spowers print, Squirrel, after the linocut, framed vintage art

Authentic 1933 Ethel Spowers print after the artist's linocut artwork entitled "The Squirrel". A rarely offered print from the pages of an Australian art journal, printed in Geelong. Framed with simple solid wood with custom double mount behind glass. Excellent condition as shown.

31cm x 28cm frame

12cm x 9cm artwork

Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) is recognised as a pivotal artist in the emergence of modernism in Australia. Academically trained in drawing and painting at the National Gallery School in Naarm/Melbourne, she would become an enthusiastic advocate for art that reflected contemporary life. Following pivotal studies in the art of the colour linocut with avant-garde artist Claude Flight in London, Spowers shared her knowledge of modern European art movements and techniques through networks of art societies and private women’s clubs in Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal Nura/Sydney. In 1930, she helped organise the first exhibition of linocut prints in Australia and cofounded the progressive Contemporary Art Group with Eveline Syme and George Bell. Dedicated to producing art that was truly of its time, the energy and optimism of Spowers’ prints, drawings and paintings captures the changing world of the interwar years.