Francis A. Shurrock Sale Day Hawarden, N. Canterbury Reproduction Print

Francis A. Shurrock
Aotearoa New Zealand / British, b.1887, d.1977

Sale Day Hawarden, N. Canterbury
1929
Linocut
Presented by Mr F A Shurrock 1960
220 x 318mm
69/460

Like Roland Hipkins, Robert Field and William Allen, the sculptor Francis Shurrock studied at the Royal College of Art in London and immigrated to Aotearoa under the La Trobe scheme to take up a teaching position at one of the country’s art schools. Francis, or Shurrie as his students fondly called him, taught at the Canterbury College School of Art in Ōtautahi Christchurch, where he offered a contemporary, modern outlook on art that was in contrast to the conservative atmosphere of the school at that time. Francis owned a large collection of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints, which he made freely available to his students and friends. He began making linocuts in the late 1920s and wood-engravings in the early 1930s, encouraging many of his students to use these mediums in their practice.

A high-quality reproduction of Francis A. Shurrock's original linocut from the collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.

This Small Art Print is available as a matted print or framed in black or white.

Dimensions: matted 350 x 280mm, framed 380 x 310 x 35mm