Henry Rushbury, A.R.A.

Henry George Rushbury|Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

1930 · Etching; thirteenth state of thirteen · Drawings and Prints

Brockhurst and Rushbury met as students at the Birmingham School of Art and remained friends after both moved to London. This etching is considered one of the artist's finest and reprises a painting of 1927 (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh) made shortly after the sitter was elected as an Associate etcher of the Royal Academy–Brockhurst became an Associate painter the following year. When shown at the Academy in 1929, the oil stimulated commissions and helped to launch Brockhurst's career as a portraitist. The etching concentrates and intensifies the composition, using monochrome to develop subtleties of texture and tone.

Artist

Henry George Rushbury|Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Date

1930

Medium

Etching; thirteenth state of thirteen

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Bern Kennedy Bullard Jr., 1946