- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2006.144
- People
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Sybil Andrews, Canadian (Britain 1898 - 1992 Canada)
- Title
- Mother and Son
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1932
- Culture
- Canadian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/317241
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Color linocut from three blocks, printed in spectrum red, viridian and Chinese blue on buff oriental laid tissue
- Technique
- Linocut
- Dimensions
- sheet: 34.29 x 20.32 cm (13 1/2 x 8 in.)
image: 28.3 x 14.5 cm (11 1/8 x 5 11/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: upper right in graphite pencil: Sybil Andrews
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- White 22
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Barbara Butts and Michael Parke-Taylor in honor of Susan Dackerman
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.144
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Commentary
- Born in England, Andrews migrated to Canada after WW II. Although she also made drawings and paintings, she is best known as a maker of colored linocuts like this one, the majority of which were made between 1929 and 1939. A student of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London, Andrews' designs like those of her teacher Claude Flight are abstracted stylizations of mostly modern subjects-the work and leisure of the contemporary city. She also made a number of linocuts based on religious themes, such as this "Mother and Child" which depicts Christ on the Cross. Although art historians claim that she was not an especially religious person, she was fascinated by the drama of the life of Christ.
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