Title: |
Stockholm Island II, Cloud |
Artist: |
Fairclough, Michael (Blackburn, Lancashire, Born, 1940) |
Date: |
c. 1985 |
Medium: |
Original Aquatint |
Note: |
Michael Fairclough: A contemporary British painter
and printmaker, Michael Fairclough studied art techniques at the Kingston
School of Art (1957 to 1961). From 1962 to 1964 he taught at the Belfast
School of Art. In 1964 he was awarded the Rome Scholar in Engraving and
thus spent the following two years working and living in Italy. In the
following year, Michael Fairclough went to Paris to study engraving techniques under
S. W. Hayter at Atelier 17. He then joined the faculty at the West Surrey
College of Art and Design and taught there from 1967 to 1979. |
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Michael Fairclough was elected Associate of the Royal Society
of Painter-Etchers in 1964 and Fellow in 1973. He is also a Fellow of the
Printmakers' Council (1981) and a Member of the New English Art Club
(1995). Today the art of Michael Fairclough is included in such collections
as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the South London Art Gallery,
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Greenwich Art Gallery, New York Public Library,
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Museums Boymans van Beunegen, Rotterdam,
the European Parliament and the European Science Foundation. |
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In total, Michael Fairclough created two aquatints dealing with the
subject of Stockholm Island. Their titles are, "Stockholm Island I, Sun"
and "Stockholm Island II, Cloud". |
Edition: |
Limited edition of one hundred impressions. |
Size: |
13 X 17 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height
preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Price: $365.00 US |
Condition: |
Printed upon pure rag paper and with full, deckled margins.
Signed and numbered, '59/100', by the artist in pencil along
the lower margin. A finely printed impression and in excellent condition
throughout. "Stockholm Island II, Cloud" represents a fine, original example
of the landscape art of Michael Fairclough. |
Subject: |
Michael Fairclough, Stockholm Island II, Cloud , landscape
art , original aquatint, British, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. |
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