Sybil Andrews

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Sybil Andrews (19 April 1898 - December 1993) was a British-born (Bury St Edmunds) Canadian printmaker best known for her modernist linocuts.

Sybil trained in England , and began producing and exhibiting linocuts in the 1920s until 1939, working frequently with her informal partner Cyril Edward Power. She also helped in the establishment and running of The Grosvenor School of Modern Art. She worked in the shipyards during World War II where she met and married Walter Morgan. In 1947 she moved to Canada with her husband, making her home in Campbell River, British Columbia.

The Glenbow Museum, Canada is a major centre for the study of her work with a collection of over 1000 examples of Andrews' works, including all of her famous colour linocuts and the original linoleum blocks, paintings in oil and watercolour, drawings, drypoint etchings, sketchbooks, and personal papers. In England one of the largest collections in public ownership is held by St Edmundsbury Borough Council Heritage Service Bury St Edmunds . This collection includes a number of early water-colour paintings, executed while the artist was still living in Suffolk .

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[edit] List of Works

Coffee Bar 1952 colour linoleum cut

Racing 1934 colour linoleum cut

Speedway 1934 colour linoleum cut

[edit] Other collections of Sybil Andrews

  • Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, USA
  • Virtual Museum of Canada
  • Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
  • Moyse's Hall Museum, Suffolk, UK
  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand
  • The Bank of New York Mellon Collection, USA (Private Collection)

[edit] Further reading

  • Reeve, Christopher. Something to Splash About; Sybil Andrews in Suffolk. St Edmundsbury Museums 1991: Bury St Edmunds, ISBN 0-9501430-7-3

[edit] References

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