Grosvenor prints12/6/2023 ![]() ![]() There were 210 special copies of the book, containing 16 tipped-in engravings printed from the wood. The text and colour illustrations of this bold book were printed at Northend in Sheffield it is a square format (give or take 2 mm) and this was chosen carefully to display Chadwick’s work to best advantage. With such a short life and relatively limited body of work, Chadwick’s prints are rarely seen, so it is delightful that most of his best blocks survive in printable condition and are included in the special copies, tipped-onto the page. Few such monographs are as carefully researched as this. Julian Francis has made a special study of Chadwick’s life and work, and it forms the first monograph on this unique artist. Trained at Iain Macnab’s Grosvenor School of Modern Art, Chadwick was also a talented painter, and more besides. ![]() Tom died at an early age – just 30 – while fighting at El Alamein in the Second World War, but in his short life had managed to engrave images of the highest quality. One of my treasured prints is The Introduction, a wood engraving of two Balinese men introducing fighting cocks to each other, by Tom Chadwick. ![]()
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