John Farleigh

John Frederick William Charles Farleigh (born June 16, 1900 in London , † March 30, 1965 ) was a British artist. Among other things, he dealt with the technique of woodcut and published a book about it.

Life

John Farleigh finished his school career at the age of 14. He began his artistic training at the Artists' Illustrators Agency in London and at the Bolt Court School. He served as a soldier in the final months of the First World War . He later completed his education at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts (later: Central School of Art and Design), where he learned wood cutting from Bernard Meninsky and Noel Rooke . Between 1922 and 1963 he created posters for the London County Council Tramways and for London Transport . Farleigh taught at Rugby School from 1922 to 1925 before returning to London to teach at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . His teaching focus was initially on drawing, later specifically on the field of illustration. He headed the bookmaking department. From 1937 he was an associate of the Royals Society of Painter-Printmakers. He became a regular member of this society in 1948. He was also one of the founders and directors of the Crafts Center of Great Britain.

Works

John Farleigh illustrated George Bernard Shaw 's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God and The Man Who Died by DH Lawrence . In 1925 the Selected Essays by The Reverend Jonathan Swift were published with illustrations by Farleigh. The Shakespeare Head Press also published Farleigh's woodcuts in the 1920s. In 1939 or 1940 his book The Graven Image appeared . In 1941 he was commissioned by the British Council to design the front page for the catalog of the Exhibition of Modern British Crafts . The diversity of his works was recognized with the words "[...] he was also a deep-thinking artist who constantly experimented to produce works in a variety of styles that showed his fluid and brilliant use of line".

Aftermath

Farleigh's works have been shown at the Leicester Gallery , the Manchester City Art Gallery , the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Cooling and Sons Gallery , among others .

His work Engraving on Wood was published by Dryad Press in Leicester .

His students included Peggy Fortnum , Monica Poole, and Judith Kerr . The latter reports in Judith Kerr's Creatures about Farleigh's love affairs with various students. He went as "John Cotmore" in her autobiographical novel Waiting for Peace .

The National Portrait Gallery in London owns a portrait of Farleigh by Karl Pollak from 1948. Part of his estate is in the Sir Kenneth Green Library of Manchester Metropolitan University .

Publications

• Engraving in Wood , Dryad Press, Leicester o. J. ( digitized version )
• The Graven Image , London (Macmillan), 1939 or 1940
• It Never Dies , London (The Sylvan Press) 1946

literature

• Monica Poole, The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh , Gresham Books Ltd. 1985, ISBN 978-0946095155

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Artist: John Farleigh , on: www.ltmcollection.org
2. ↑ John Farleigh (1900 - 1965) , on: www.visualarts.britishcouncil.org ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} The Cowan Artists of 1944 , on: www.makers.org.uk ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Judith Kerr's Creatures. A Celebration of Her Life and Work , Harper Collins 2013, ISBN 978-0-00-7513215 , p. 30
5. ↑ Karl Pollak's portrait of Farleigh can be seen at www.npg.org.uk.
6. ↑ John Farleigh Archive , at: archiveshub.ac.uk