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The 2007 Margaret Manion Lecture |
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Dr David Maskill, University of Wellington, New Zealand |
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Harold Wright (1885-1961) is well-known to print curators in Australia and New Zealand as the founder of a unique scholarship for recipients to study the great print collection of the British Museum. But what has gone largely unacknowledged is the fact that the scholarship was an extension, after Wright's death, of a process of education and acquisition that he conducted throughout his life as the major advisor to private print collectors and public institutions in our region.
At Colnaghi's, the Bond Street dealers he served for over fifty years, Wright presided over the last flourish of the so-called 'Etching Revival'. He believed that these British printmakers, following the lead of their French counterparts, were the true heirs to the great European tradition of printmaking, not the contemporary artists of the avant-garde. This view of the history of printmaking, while at odds with the prevailing canon, has directly informed the early print collecting of our major institutions. |
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