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MAXWELL ARMFIELD

1881-1972

 

Stories from Hans Andersen 1910

Aucassine & Nicolette 1910
To Fresh Air, Poster 1915

Stories from Hans Andersen c1952

The Life and Death of Jason 1915

DRAWING AND DESIGN 1921

 

Maxwell Armfield (1881-1972) studied at Birmingham and in Paris. With Gaskin at Birmingham he inhaled the true spirit of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and settled ultimately in the Cotswolds. He was otherwise , he claimed, largely self taught. His uncomfortable experiences with Life Drawing often tended to make him rely on well honed graphic formulae. His Tempera Painting Today (1946) showed him to be a natural communicator on the subject of his favourite medium.

 

 

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