Yolande (Florence Layzell, Mrs. Henry Rushbury)

Florence Harriet Rushbury|Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

1920 · Etching; third state of three · Drawings and Prints

This charmingly informal portrayal of a young woman, made in 1920, is one of Brockhurst's earliest published etchings. The sitter was the wife of Henry Rushbury–a fellow artist whom Brockhurst had known since both attended the Birmingham School of Art as teenagers. Freely etched lines emphasize the face and suggest movement and shifting shadows, with much of the form deliberately left undeveloped. As he would for much of his career, the artist chose an exotic female name for the title–the sitter's actual name was Florence (see 46.61 for Brockhurst's later etched portrait of Henry Rushbury).

Artist

Florence Harriet Rushbury|Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Date

1920

Medium

Etching; third state of three

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of John J. Cunningham, 1967