George Mackley

Liftlock

George Mackley original wood engraving, "Liftlock" was created by the British artist around 1960. This impression is printed upon hand made, mulberry paper and signed by the artist in pencil. It is a fine, original example of the famous art of George Mackley, one of Britain's master wood engravers.

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Title:	Liftlock
Artist:	Mackley, George (Tonbridge, Kent, 1900 - 1983)
Date:	c. 1960
Medium:	Original Wood Engraving
Note:	George Mackley is a phenomenon in British engraving. A few square centimeters of Mackley is more highly charged with aesthetic energy, emotion and precision than many artists can muster in a lifetime. * ( Albert Garrett, A History of Wood Engraving, Bloomsbury Books, London, 1978, p. 223.)
	George Mackley was educated at the Judd School, Tonbridge and trained as an art teacher at Goldsmith's College, London, from 1918 to 1921. Much of his long career as a teacher was dedicated to devising special art courses for talented children.
	As an artist, George Mackley devoted much of his early work to the art of etching. Around 1930, however, a chance meeting with Noel Rooke converted Mackley to wood engraving. Mackley took some basic instructions from Rooke and carefully studied the works of other great contemporary wood engravers such as, Agnes Miller Parker, Blair Hughes Stanton, Robert Gibbings and Joan Hassall. "He became a superb craftsman, finding the medium capable of a precision which suited the subjects he preferred -- boats, bridges, architecture, plants." By the 1940's George Mackley had emerged as one of England's greatest wood engravers and an undisputed master of creating textures and a fineness of line. (Alan Horne, The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1994, p. 306.)
	George Mackley was a full member of the Society of Wood Engravers (1948) and of the Art Workers' Guild (1959). He was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1950 and a Fellow in 1961. Finally, in 1983, he was awarded the M.B.E. Major collections of George Mackley's wood engraved art are found in England at the Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam museums.
Size:	2 1/4 X 2 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon hand made, mulberry paper and with full margins as printed and published by George Mackley around 1960. Signed by the artist in pencil along the lower margin. A superbly printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. This original wood engraving stands as a prime example of the famous art of George Mackley, one of Britain's master wood engravers.
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