Grey Horse Head
About this artwork
Best known for her work in sculpture, Elisabeth Frink was also a prolific printmaker, usually working from the Curwen Press in Chilford near Cambridge. She began exploring screenprint during the late 1980s. Amongst her recurrent subjects were dogs, birds and horses, which she sought, in her own words, to capture in spirit ‘without over sentimentalising’. This screenprint directly translates the spontaneity of Frink’s confident style of mark making.
Published November 2023
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artist:Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) English
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title:Grey Horse Head
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date created:1990
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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measurements:98.50 x 70.50 cm (framed: 115.00 x 84.00 cm)
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credit line:The Henry and Sula Walton collection: bequeathed 2012
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accession number:GMA 5246
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Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink’s artistic career was launched at the age of twenty-two with her first solo exhibition. Linked with the group of post-war British sculptors that included Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi, she is perhaps best known for her expressionistic animal figures and popular public sculpture...