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Image and Word
The Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books
19 January – 27 March 2015
This exhibition of 50 prints and 50 illustrated books has been selected from the highly regarded collection of Julian Francis and spans a period of eight decades, starting from the end of the First World War, with an emphasis on the interwar period. The exhibition highlights the use of creative printmaking in both commercial and private presses and explores how artists work differently when creating wall-mounted pieces and book illustrations. Significant, and less well-known, artists are represented including Edward Ardizzone, John Farleigh, Barnett Freedman, Lucian Freud, Eric Gill, Enid Marx, Agnes Miller Parker, John and Paul Nash, John O’Connor, and Eric Ravilious.
Also
on display will be a selection of material from the artists’ archives
held at MMU Special Collections, giving further and unique insights into
the artistic practices of some of these key
figures in British art of the last 100 years.
Image: Cover design and illustration by Barnett Freedman for
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon, Faber & Faber, 1931. © Estate of Barnett Freedman.
FREE ADMISSION
Opening Times
Monday - Friday 10am-4pm
Thursday 10am - 7pm
Saturday 12noon - 4pm
MMU Special Collections
Manchester Metropolitan University
Sir Kenneth Green Library
All Saints
Manchester
M15 6BH
MMU Special Collections are part of the North West Craft Network.
