Roland
Hipkins
(1895-1951)
British-New
Zealand printmaker
and art teacher .
Hipkins, born
in Staffordshire and trained at the Royal College of Art in London,moved to New
Zealand under the La Trobe Scheme, encouraging British Art teachers to come to
New Zealand. From 1922 Hipkins taught art at
Napier and later Wellington Technical Schools. In 1923 he
married Scottish Jenny Campbell (Ayr 1887-1970) trained at Edinburgh College of Art who emigrated to New Zealand with Hipkins in
1922. I discovered Roland Hipkins Polperro print by stumbling over these éxamples by his wife Jenny
Campbell.
They were in Margaret
Anna Dobson’s (1888-1981) 1930 “Block-cutting and Print-making” book that I've recently obtained. Also, in 1930, Eric Heskett Hubbard (1892-1957), named in Dobsons book, also edited his book "Simple Colour Block Print Making" at the Forest
Press. Dobsons book and her 1936 published ”Lino Prints” both were edited at Pitman
& Sons are illustrated by many examples by contemporary printmakers. With prints pulled from original
blocks.
Besides a
good and well trained painter Margaret
Dobson was quite capable of producing a linoleumcut print herself. Like the one (left) “printed from 5 linoleum blocks”. It it is the only example (included in her second, 1936, book "Lino Cuts" ) I could find.
Margaret
Dobson was an American painter and illustrator, trained in Pennslylvania America and studied also in Paris and
stayed in London before finally returning for America in 1933. Reading the books and
seeing the dozens of names and examples she must have been well acquainted with
most if not all 1920-1935 grafic artists in England. Like:
Sydney Lee
(1866-1957)
and Charles
Darwins artistic granddaughter Gwen Raverat (1875-1957)
and many others she used illustrating her books.
Have you contacted the Cornwall Artist's Index abou Hipkin's work there? They may not know about him and there is a form on the site.
ReplyDeleteCampbell is an interesting addition to the Edinburgh scene and confirms you as an honorary Scot.
Haji B
I didn't know it existed, I will. I'll write it in my passport. And leave the British engravers for Modern Printmakers to deal with.
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