DESCENT FROM THE BUS, c.1927
CLAUDE FLIGHT
colour linocut
31.5 x 15.5 cm
signed and numbered lower right within image: CLAUDE FLIGHT 8/50
Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne (as ‘Design for a Window’)
Ken and Joan Plomley Collection of Modernist Art, Melbourne, acquired from the above in July 1980
Exhibition of Oils, Watercolours, Lino-Cuts and Sculpture by Claude Flight, The Redfern Gallery, London, 1927, cat. 32 (another example)
Exhibition of Lino-Cuts by Claude Flight, R.B.A, Albany Gallery, London, 1931, cat. 4 (another example, as ‘Descent from Omnibus’)
British Printmakers 1812 – 1940, Mathiesen Fine Art, London, December 1979 (another example)
Out of the Book and On to the Wall: The Relief Print, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, 20 February – October 1984 (another example)
The Grosvenor School. British Linocuts Between the Wars, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 22 January – 20 March 1988; Cleveland Museum of Art, 9 August – 2 October 1988; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 22 October – 18 December 1988, cat. 20 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 27)
Claude Flight and His Followers: The Colour Linocut Movement between the Wars, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 18 April – 18 July 1993 and touring (another example)
British Modern Prints from the British Museum: from the Great War to the Grosvenor School, University of San Diego, San Diego, 10 February – 19 May 2017 (another example)
Konody, P. G., Observer, London, 19 June 1927, p. 14
Laver, J., ‘Recent Etching and Engraving’, Artwork, London, vol. 3, no. 11, September – November 1927, p.151
Coppel, S., Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School, Scolar Press, Aldershot, England, in association with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995, cat. CF22, pl.7, pp. 78 (illus., another example)