Wet Afternoon

1929

Ethel Spowers

Associated Names
Ethel Spowers

Artist, Australian, 1890 - 1947

The image features curved and diagonal lines creating an array of overlapping shapes. It shows a scene of many umbrellas, resembling a crowded cityscape on a rainy day. The umbrellas are patterned in stripes and solid colors. The colors include green, red, white, and brown, dividing the space into segments. The composition evokes the texture of fabric and rain, reminiscent of a rainy day pedestrian scene with umbrellas.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    4-color linocut (printed from 4 blocks) on buff laid tissue paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.1 x 20.3 cm (9 1/2 x 8 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 x 23.3 cm (13 15/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1988.20.40

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Coppel 1995, Vol. ES, no. 14

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1995

  • Coppel, Stephen. Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School: a catalogue raisonné. England: Scolar Press, 1995.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite below image: Wet Afternoon. 22/50-; lower right in graphite below image: E.L. Spowers- 1930 -; lower right in graphite: ord 33

Wikidata ID

Q74877964

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