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Claude Flight, artist
English, 1881 - 1955
Paris Omnibus, 1923
Color linoleum cut
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1981.1.75

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Artist Biography: Born in London on 16 February 1881. and began a career in engineering, followed by work as a librarian, farmer and bee-keeper. He began full-time art studies at age 31, in 1912, at Heatherley's Art School in St. John's Wood under Leonard Walker. C.R.W.Nevinson was a fellow student, and he introduced Flight to Marinetti and Severini, who exhibited at a Futurist exhibition in London in 1912. After service in World War I, Flight went on to develop his own form of Futurism and an individual approach to use of the linocut. He was a founder member of the Seven and Five Society in 1919 (voted out in 1928), became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1923 and briefly belonged to the Grubb Group in 1928. The majority of his linocuts were produced between 1925 and 1930, the years when he was co-director of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. In his linocuts, Flight concentrated on movement and speed, and, with the exception of Nevinson during the war years, was the only Futurist artist in England to do so.Lived and worked with Edith Lawrence from 1920. Moved to Wiltshire in 1943 after losing home and studio in a bombing raid. Incapacitated by a stroke in 1947 and died in 1955. (some of the information from the dealers, N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish, Ltd., London and Wiltshire)

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